I hate that I am stealing from the creators but I use Unwatched to block ads and trackers on youtube. If there was some other site like YouTube I would be willing to switch to it, I would even go back to paying for it if it was not a US company.

I moved my Wordpress host from some US host to hosthero and changed the domain from reannlegge.com to reannlegge.ca.

I have an unlimited email address package with my domain so I can create new email addresses for every thing, I get next to no spam but when I do get spam I can close the email address.

I moved my passwords from Apple to 1password.

I moved my cloud storage away from Apple to stormweb.

I use the app Unwatched to watch YouTube it blocks ads.

I use ecosia instead of Google, sure it currently is just a skin on Google but I believe they are going to be changing their agent sooner or later.

I canceled my cable (for sports) and just got TSN streaming.

I cancelled all the streaming services and replaced it with the *arr apps, and CBC gem.

Most of my food products are Canadian.

I stopped using Reddit and replaced it with Lemmy.

Definitely not just due to Canadians, as people from around the world are afraid of being ICE,d. it is mostly Trump’s fault, but 100% the US voters.

I personally cut all my subscriptions earlier this year, and started to pay for CBC. I sail the high seas for most of my media now.

No I would disagree, it gives you the warm fuzzies thinking you have turned things off. It has just turned off the front end.

I cannot imagine being told to buy a back up ticket for another flight.

Yeah cause Russia and China have not already been seen invading.

I understand their frustration: if I knew universities were doing that here I would be frustrated beyond belief to, but these people need to see there is a whole world outside of the US. The scientific world is not ending, the US is just going to suffer from not being able to educate themselves for a few generations.

Fair

Ford has some great words, I thought he was calling Pete a cracker.

i love the idea of the Google being breached, if you ask them they will sell you all the data.

First off Census, and other Statistics Canada data is a lot harder to pin to a person in Canada then it is in the US. Just saying.

I used some data broker removal tool, I wanna say incognit, several years ago. Althoug; in Canada, it is only Ontario that there are laws saying stuff about data removal and Saskatchewan’s human rights commision is a joke I found they did a good job at removing enough for me to be comfortable.

Or so I thought, I got to a point where I just broke and started sending emails to companies asking to be taken off their lists. After getting a few replies saying that I am not on their lists, and they are unsure as to why I received emails I decided to ditch that gmail account. It was still important that I be able to receive stuff from it for a while so I set up an auto-reply and an Apple’s hide my email address to forward stuff to. In 2025 it took me a few months to figure things out but when I moved my domain to a .ca address I also got an unlimited email address package and moved everything to a new email address. I get next to no spam phone calls or text messages, if I get spam emails I decide if that address is important or not and then either contact the company about it being leaked or more likely just close the address.

As for my home address I stuck a sticker in my mailbox asking for no junk mail, so the only junk I get is addressed to me (once every few months) which I then create a gmail address to say so and so either, no longer lives here or is dead.

This still does not stop data brokers from knowing stuff about me, it just makes it considerably harder for them to connect me. To decrease the value of my eyeballs even further I have a pihole setup on my LAN which blocks a lot of the trackers and a lot of the ads.

Further to all this I stopped paying for a lot of US services which sell my data, like what I have watched or listened to and started sailing the high C’s again.

There are open source alternatives for all those products, even the AI if you want to buy hardware from US companies.

I stopped using gmail several years ago, I stopped using my gmail account because I did not want the google going through my emails to sell ads to me. In January I stopped paying for youtube premium, and started using ad blockers for youtube instead.

So those who voted democrat and children. The ones who voted republican or did not vote are reaping what they sowed.

Not that I still use Reddit but I have to remember that Lenny replaces Reddit in much more ways.

I do not see him living for the next 3 years and 3 months.

I have ditched MacOS proper, I sadly am still using iPadOS, iPhoneOS, WatchOS, I have almost gotten away from TVOS. I am wanting to get away from HomeKit and move to homebridge or home assistant. I have a few HomePod mini’s that I have wanted to migrate to a more open system.

I am confused why is this an alternative to article? Is it Google taking advantage of the US government destroying NOAA so that future administrations will just pay the Google to do the work.

With Google then using its power to buy other countries.

Yes to more Libreboot, but also coreboot. There are other options.