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Every single step towards IT independance is good to take, while some can afford to ditch Windows for Linux, erase all their subscriptions, it's not as easy for others. Every cent that they don't make from us is the better.
Still have the moral dilemma of cancelling my WoW subscription ππ
Sail the high seas my friend. 'arrr
Canadian here - canceled Amazon Prime, and deleted Meta's Facebook and Messenger. I also canceled my Norton subscription and will be replacing it with Avast. I'm canceling Google One cloud storage and have changed my default search engine to Quant.
I know I'm just one family, but if we all do this kind of stuff, what a world it would be!
Avast had privacy violations.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/did-avast-sell-your-data-heres-how-to-get-a-piece-of-the-ftc-settlement
Windows defender is good enough if you are on Windows.
Canadian here. We cancelled Netflix and all of our Apple services.
Itβs the churn that will really hurt the U.S. companies when they realize the only ones buying their products are Americans, and in order to appease their share holders theyβll need to have price increases more often and much higher.
Keep it up. Vote with your wallet.
American here and I've cancelled a lot of subscriptions over the past month. I'm basically only paying for essentials like groceries, utilities, various insurance plans and gas. A lot of us here are doing what we can to reduce our spending.
Unfortunately I lost access to Viaplay (Swedish streaming service) after my girlfriend cancelled her Amazon Prime membership. Prime had to go, but I miss my Nordic noir.
Netflix has become trash over the years anyway, you're all better off with other services.
Does anyone know of a recommendation engine as robust as Netflix? Trying to talk my wife into canceling, but it's very good at suggesting new content, which is hard to let go of.
Kodi with Real Debrid. I have used it for a couple of years now. Can get everything as soon as it comes to streaming. I run it through an nvidia shield but you can use fire sticks or chromecast, you also need a VPN and ~$10 every 6 months subscription fee. It's a bit of an upfront cost and will take maybe half an hour to set up but it's totally worth it. I haven't paid for a single streaming channel in about 5 years so it's paid for itself several times now.
What extension do you use on Kodi?
Fen lite
i only have gmail, netflix and windows 10 to replace. gmail is easy but time consuming. on netflix is dragon ball daima π
microshaft windowns 10 is the hardest for me. most of my games arent from steam.
I already made a Tuta account and am shifting the subscriptions to that one, but I will wait until email import is introduced to shift completely.