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Being forced to use a product at work is one thing, but is it really that difficult to opt out of Facebook and Google in one's personal life? Unless one needs to advertise a personal business or something, the former is as easy as deleting your account, and you can drop most of the latter's services in minutes (just use DDG/protonmail/openstreetmap/etc instead). Obviously if you have an Android phone that's another step.

All I'm saying is it can be done, and it needn't be all or nothing: one can proceed in whichever increments make the most sense.



Both companies track you unless you're extreme with ad and tracking blockers.


Yeah, they do. But it can still be meaningful to boycott the services.




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