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| * [[https://fuckoffgoogle.de/google-is-evil/|Google is Evil]] | * [[https://fuckoffgoogle.de/google-is-evil/|Google is Evil]] |
| * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google|Criticism of Google]] | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google|Criticism of Google]] |
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| | ==== Alternatives ==== |
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| | * Install [[https://lineageos.org/|LineageOS]] on your Android phone and be free from "Google Apps" that you can never trust with your data. |
| | * Use different search engines, never get used to just one of them. |
| | * [[https://duckduckgo.com/|DuckDuckGo]], |
| | * [[https://qwant.com/|Qwant]], |
| | * [[https://searx.space/|SearXNG]]. |
| | * Consider searching directly where you expect to find the information. For example, you wouldn't search for recipes in a movie database. |
| | * It makes sense to just go to your movie database of choice and search for the movie title, instead of asking Google to do the same for you. |
| | * Many websites offer their own search engines. Some of them even use [[https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch|OpenSearch]] to make it easier to add them to your browser! It's very comfortable and easy to use. |
| | * Register a mail account with a [[https://www.privacytools.io/privacy-email|privacy-respecting provider]]. |
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| ===== Amazon ===== | ===== Amazon ===== |
| ===== Facebook ===== | ===== Facebook ===== |
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| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica|Cambridge Analytica scandal]] was particularly well covered by the mainstream media. But it wasn’t the only one --- there’s even a page called [[https://dayssincelastfacebookscandal.com/|days since last Facebook scandal]] that records evidence of Facebook’s wrongdoings. | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica|Cambridge Analytica scandal]] was particularly well covered by the mainstream media. But it wasn’t the only one --- there was even a page called [[https://dayssincelastfacebookscandal.com/|days since last Facebook scandal]] that recorded evidence of Facebook’s wrongdoings, but it went offline. However, there's still the [[https://framagit.org/pksl/dayssincelastfacebookscandal.com|repository]] that was used to document those scandals. |
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| At the time of writing (2021-04-11), most recent Facebook scandal was data of 530 million Facebook users had been made publicly available. A company that encourages people to share this information should process it responsibly, right? Well, Facebook doesn’t think so. According to their [[https://about.fb.com/news/2021/04/facts-on-news-reports-about-facebook-data/|statement]], everything is fine because the data wasn’t stolen by hackers --- it was merely collected by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping|scraping]]. | At the time of writing (2021-04-11), most recent Facebook scandal was data of 530 million Facebook users had been made publicly available. A company that encourages people to share this information should process it responsibly, right? Well, Facebook doesn’t think so. According to their [[https://about.fb.com/news/2021/04/facts-on-news-reports-about-facebook-data/|statement]], everything is fine because the data wasn’t stolen by hackers --- it was merely collected by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping|scraping]]. |
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| ===== Apple ===== | ===== Apple ===== |
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| | Company known to drive the lust for eye-candy gadgets sold at insane prices produces them in factory that needs "suicide nets", to prevent workers from jumping out of windows. |
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| | At the same time, the company prevents its devices from interoperating seamlessly with other devices, e.g. using non-standard cable sockets. |
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| References: | References: |
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| * [[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-life-death-forbidden-city-longhua-suicide-apple-iphone-brian-merchant-one-device-extract|Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city]] | * [[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-life-death-forbidden-city-longhua-suicide-apple-iphone-brian-merchant-one-device-extract|Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city]] |
| | * [[https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-factorys-wall-e-robots-and-suicide-nets-revealed/|Apple factory's Wall-E robots and suicide nets revealed]] |
| | * [[https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/19/23924549/jon-stewart-apple-ai-china-cancel|Jon Stewart’s Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China]] |
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| | ==== Alternatives ==== |
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| | Instead of buying another fancy gadget from this greedy corporation, consider: |
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| | * Extending the lifetime of the devices you've already got. (For example, you can [[https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/degrowth/#see-what-corporations-are-really-doing-and-act-upon-it|downgrade your macOS]].) |
| | * Buying [[https://www.fairphone.com/|FairPhone]], a phone that's designed with sustainability in mind. (Many of the components it's built of can be replaced, so you can fix your device instead of buying a new one, leaving less waste.) |
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| ===== Microsoft ===== | ===== Microsoft ===== |
| - [[https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/21/microsoft_key_skeleton/|Stolen Microsoft key may have opened up a lot more than US govt email inboxes]] | - [[https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/21/microsoft_key_skeleton/|Stolen Microsoft key may have opened up a lot more than US govt email inboxes]] |
| - [[wp>Criticism of Microsoft]] | - [[wp>Criticism of Microsoft]] |
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| | ==== Alternatives ==== |
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| | * **use free operating system** --- depending on your experience with computers, you can choose either **Linux** or something more advanced (like a flavour of BSD), |
| | * announce looking for a job on fediverse, |
| | * register a mail account with a [[https://www.privacytools.io/privacy-email|privacy-respecting provider]]. |
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