Get Off Apps, Take Back The World.
Yall have got to get more comfortable going outside of ur norm. We are not inept in the face of tech oligarchy.
A website requires ur ID? Dawg, do not use that website. Don't use it. 'But every social media where I live requires that and thats the only way I connect with people,' babe ur gonna learn to talk to ppl irl or ur gonna learn about some digital back doors, I promise it is worth it. I promise it is not that hard or scary.
Ur grocery store is trying to implement digital dynamic targeted pricing? Brother do not use the app, don't scan shit. As far as they're concerned u don't have a phone. Bring everything that looks good up to a register with a human being and have them tell you the prices. Leave anything you don't wanna pay for there. Pay with cash.
Ur apps are tracking and/or censoring what u say or consume? They're showing you more ads than humans' posts? I've got it, I've got it... don't use them. Literally why are you continuing to use them. The scariest part of this shit is that y'all really believe you have to engage with it. Why is anybody on tiktok or instagram anymore? Yall cannot breathe without censoring urselves. I could not physically hold my breath for the amount of time it takes to scroll past ads between real human posts on insta-- and that's not even specifically people I know. why are yall giving your time and brains to this?
These things are not hard, they just require you to stop thinking via ur phone. Hell, you don't even have to get fully offline to get the fuck off of apps. They're hurting us. We've lived in an analogue world for much longer than a digital one. You've probably lived without any of these things before. I'm so sick of the "we can't do anything to stop the tech monstrosities" rhetoric... you literally can disengage. That is doing something. It's barely even truly inconvenient for most people. Literally just disengage.
[If yall leverage disabled & rural ppl whom u only care abt when it's convenient for u rn, I will scream. I am the disabled & rural ppl. I am the disabled rural person & I'm telling u to disengage.]
