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Canada’s fight over digital sovereignty is just getting started
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I have been trying to do my part the only real centralized social media I use is Discord, because a community I am part of uses it. I have accounts on a few other social things but they just sit there dead.
I have gotten more into blocking ads, and not paying for things to not see the ads, because I do not want to pay even 0.01% of a penny to the Trump government. I use Unwatched to watch the youtube I wanna watch, because it can block ads. I used to pay apple for hide my email, the amount of spam I got was a few times a week, I cancelled that and gave myself a month to move all my hide my emails to a host in Canada. I can count the amount of spam I have gotten these past few months on one hand, and that is only because I have my old ISP email address forwarding to one of my email addresses I check.
I am an adult but I do not like accidentally coming across porn, so my pihole setup blocks most porn sites. I have a few dollars to my name so I can afford to be sucked into the never ending void of micro payments, it is not fun when it happens because it takes a little while to get out, I have sense turned off the ability for in app purchases to prevent myself from being sucked into the void again. I have cancelled all US streaming services and started using Radarr and Sonarr (with Prowlarr, Transmission, and Jellyfin). I have moved most of my online data onto Canadian servers and service providers, if Carney is not going to keep his elbows up when it comes to our digital sovereignty I will keep mine up!
Right on!! Like you, I HATE spam. And the thought that I'm helpless to receive unwanted corporate communication makes me a little nutty. To that end, I've found email filters to be really helpful when all else fails. I use protonmail but I imagine other email applications have something similar. As soon as I get one unwanted email, I create a new rule: based on the sender's email address and/or subject line keywords - instantly move all current and future messages to trash and mark as read. Out of sight out of mind
I go one step further, I do not use filters I use separate email addresses. While I was still using apple’s hide my email and I got spam I would reach out to the service if I still used it and tell them emails were leaked, then I would change my email address. If I had forgotten that I had that account I would just close the email.
I tried out proton for a bit but I heard that they supported Trump, it seems that this story may not be true, so I wanted to move to a Canadian host. Sure it is not as easy as Apple’s hide my email or proton but cpannel is not that hard.
What's Transmission?
Open source Bittorrent client
That's a new one for me, thanks!