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A book on escaping surveillance capitalism/the broligarchy (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm a former journalist, and created a free resource called DISENGAGE: Opting Out—and Finding New Options—to Reclaim Your Life from Spammers, Scammers, Intrusive Marketers and Big Tech.

It's available in PDF and full text on the website, plus EPUB at Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Smashwords, and other retailers.

It costs $0. No email needed, no tracking, no affiliate links. It was a passion project and I'm just trying to get the word out.

(If you know anyone in the press who may want a hardcopy, i printed up a couple dozen in print format on my own dime...just let me know!)

Enjoy!

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[–] Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Yes, I'm one of them, haha! It would be great to have Linux or a privacy OS...though I haven't found a privacy OS I think will be any good.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Took 3 months but there you go https://video.benetou.fr/w/p/q8C2p1Aky9uVPrPShMrAxK?playlistPosition=8 let me know if that helps!

[–] Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm only about 3/4 of the way through but I love it! I'm on a trip, but as soon as I get back I can't wait to try this. I'll also share it with some groups I'm in. THANK YOU.

We should even make a video where I interview you on some of these things for a MUCH less techie audience. There are a LOT of retired people I know who have money, they have time, and they hate what's happening here...but I would never be able to convince them to do some of this stuff. And these people are ignored!

What do you think? I could ask the most very basic questions on why this is important, how to make it as simple as possible, etc. (I'm a semi-retired journalist so I have LOTS of experience interviewing. :)

I hope you'll join my 5-week degoogle challenge! https://signal.group/#CjQKIPfv-Xa5mSVIES2Rwx5-8tQHT8wgADjmXXAp6Glu23V-EhCM50toN-KpLV4lXJg1TM3Q

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Neat, DM sent.

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