I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell
To end my experiment, I’m going to see if I can survive blocking Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook all at once.
To end my experiment, I’m going to see if I can survive blocking Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook all at once.
Do Not Track is apparently dead, and Apple is now taking steps to shed itself of the failed privacy project.
Apple is my gateway to almost all things digital. I am physically touching an Apple device for the majority of any given day.
Here's what happened when I tried to cut all Microsoft services out of my life.
This experiment is not just about boycotting Google products. I’m also preventing my devices from interacting with Google in invisible ways.
I never thought I’d miss the social network. But here I am, staring at my screen, feeling strangely alone.
Goodbye, big five.
It wasn't the online store itself that posed the biggest problem. It was the Amazon empire's stranglehold on basically every other aspect of digital life.
‘You scratch my algorithm’s back. I’ll scratch your algorithm’s back,’ or so the arrangement apparently went.
It takes much more than switching location tracking off to get Facebook to stop checking on your whereabouts.
As usual, Facebook’s machinations were shrouded in mystery to the detriment of its vulnerable users.
Facebook strikes again.
On the upside, you get fast answers. On the downside, your thought process is being unknowingly observed.
If you turn on “Do Not Track,” it’s not doing anything to protect you.
Facebook has claimed that users already have extensive control over what information is made available to advertisers, but that’s not entirely true.
Facebook, consider belatedly celebrating People You May Know’s 10th anniversary by letting users opt out of it entirely.
