Day Two: Better Browsing According to statcounter.com, Google's Chrome browser currently enjoys over 68% marketshare, with Apple's Safari not even a close second at…

Follow along as we do the 21-day #cybercleanse week-by-week! This weekend, ditch #Chrome, #Safari, or #Edge and move to a privacy-centric alternative. Already on #Firefox? There is a long list of easy, free, and freeing new ones to try!
#optout #bigtech
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"The Cleanse, March 21st 2078"

#aiart #horrorart #cyberpunk #thecleanse #purge2077 #cybercleanse #sda24 #synthart #horror #dystopian

Original post on mastodon.spotek.io

This year, this administration, and just big tech billionaire sellout bros have inspired me to do a #CyberCleanse including trying to get off the Gmail account I got when it was in beta... hundreds of years ago.

This is surprisingly harder than changing a legal name and pretty much anything […]

Day Nineteen: Adios, Alexa! Leave voice assistant, alternative, AI assistant, Alexa, Echo, Dot, Home, Cortana, Siri

Excuse me, but is that an open microphone in your bedroom?

www.optoutproject.net/adios-alexa/

#cybercleanse #toxictech #optout

Day Eighteen: Personal Photos Who is doing what with your photos? Chances are you have put photos of yourself, your dog, cat, and kids…

On Day 18 of the #cybercleanse we repossess all our memories -- er, photos.

www.optoutproject.net/photos/

Time to retrieve the archive of your life from other peoples' cloud storage and do so responsibly and reliably.

#toxictech #optout

Day Seventeen: Control Your Collaborations Cooperation makes it happen (dig it!) If you're like millions of other people in the world, you probably use some…

Fellow academics! You can write that next paper *without* Google docs! Yes, you! Yes you can!

www.optoutproject.net/control-coll...

Day Seventeen of #cybercleanse -- take back your collaborative cloud storage and move your shared documents and projects elsewhere.

#optout #toxictech

Day Sixteen: Get a VPN Hopefully you're working diligently through your Data Roadmap, deleting accounts you don't need, changing email masks and credit cards over…

Folks, it's Day Sixteen. Do you have a VPN yet?

#cybercleanse #optout #toxictech

www.optoutproject.net/get-vpn/

Day Fifteen: Trash Unwanted Accounts Take out the Trash This is the boring part of the course. Boring but necessary for internet hygiene. Like brushing…

The #cybercleanse continues ...
Day 14: Change all passwords, usernames, and stored credit card numbers
Day 15: Delete, unsubscribe, and remove yourself from what doesn't serve you--and from those who only serve themselves

www.optoutproject.net/trash-unwant...

#optout #toxictech

Day Thirteen: Shop Securely Let's Talk Shop Today we are going to talk seriously about shopping on the Internet. Because the fact is, every…

Secure your shopping and online accounts!

On Day Thirteen of #cybercleanse we get set up for credit card masking, and practice researching companies to suss out their data practices and investment stakeholders.

www.optoutproject.net/shop-securely/

#optout #toxictech

Day Twelve: Password Protection Up Next: Secure All Accounts! The big ticket items on your Data Roadmap should be looking pretty good by now.

On the twelfth day of #cybercleanse the opt out project gave to me.... A password manager!

www.optoutproject.net/password-pro...

Day Eleven: Get Social Again Two weeks to change the world You've started in the process of getting your stuff off social media: great! But…

Step Two in deleting your social media: don't just reclaim your data, reclaim the "social" and replace it with other connective tissue outside the platform.

#cybercleanse #optout #toxictech #facebook #twitter

www.optoutproject.net/get-social-a...

Day Ten: Leave Social Media A social, not just technical, tooklit There are a lot of posts out the on the internet that will teach…

This is the weekend to ensure you get off all oligarch-controlled social media. Don't just delete or disable your account, only to be drawn back in by the latest rage. Truly leave it behind --and NEVER go back.

#cybercleanse #optout #toxictech

www.optoutproject.net/social-media...

Day Nine: Secure Messaging Fresh, untracked browser or two? Check. New secure email systems with masking set up? Check. Contacts and calendars switched over?…

It's Day Nine of the #cybercleanse -- when we all INSTALL SIGNAL!!

Secure messaging is essential, especially as we are going to start tearing down the fabric of your online social life (as hosted by Big Tech).

You can and will transition from #toxictech

www.optoutproject.net/secure-messa...

The Cyber-Cleanse: Take Back Your Digital Footprint New Year, New Digital You! New Years are an opportunity for committing to resolutions, starting new habits, discarding what no…

The time to get off the Zuckerverse (Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, Instagram) was ... years ago. Today's not a bad time to start either.

Join my #cybercleanse to flush these toxic systems from your life, and stop feeding the billionaires with clicks and likes!

www.optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cl...

The Cyber-Cleanse: Take Back Your Digital Footprint New Year, New Digital You! New Years are an opportunity for committing to resolutions, starting new habits, discarding what no…

The time to get off Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, and Instagram was ... years ago. But today's not a bad time to start either.

Join my #cybercleanse to flush these toxic systems out of your life, and stop feeding the billionaires with your clicks and likes!

www.optoutproject.net/tags/cleanse/