railcar @ railcar @midwest.social Posts 1Comments 5Joined 1 mo. ago
There are localized efforts to remediate this, https://www.mamacertified.org/ for example.
I'd choose this over axe throwing, but still prefer bowling. There are smart phone apps that "tech enable" your dart board at home.
This has been going on since the early 1990s. Just keep up the fight.
check out OPNsense routers and use your existing equipment only as access points. You can then make firewall rules to block them from phoning home. protectli sells some inexpensive models.
This reads like an angry old man complaining how the internet was better back in my day. It may have been better, but it didn't have every human being plus armies of bots. It was not user friendly. It was hard. So hard most people didn't bother with much more than email. Neither is the fediverse easy. Facebook, xitter, reddit, Instagram etc... they are as easy as passively watching television or listening to radio. They require no thought, or even much interaction. There are so many trackers across the web that they already know you and what bullshit you'll eat. That's both their greatest secret to success and their greatest danger to society.