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Also congratulations to everyone that deleted facebook and made it here. You achieved level 1, but there is still a long way to go!

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@robots I still have a twitter but non of the other things, where does that put me?

@robots
Level 7: #DeleteIntel
Level 8: #DeleteX86

@robots I have a question: I'd disembark from the path right away. I have my right to choice, and that can't be disabled.

@robots
In 2018 I'd put #deletegoogle after #deletewindows based on difficulty. Moving to Linux has gotten easier as Google has meanwhile dug in its claws. After all, what will you run on your phone, ReplicantOS? It's hardly ready for prime time, and PureOS is all but vaporware at the moment. There's Jolla's Sailfish OS to check out but there are reasons it hasn't seen mass adoption. And I can't assume you're advocating iOS as a serious privacy alternative... Ubuntu Touch still a thing?

@cykros Seems like the most promising alternative under development is plasma mobile. Ubuntu touch is dead and I don't really like Canonical anyways.

@robots
I guess you could advocate feature phones or no phone like Richard Stallman does, but good luck with that hard line zealotry.

Best I usually see is mitigating Google by using something else for email, startpage for search, hosting your own calendar, firefox browser, and signal messenger, among other measures. And then being aware of what you DO still share with Google and acting sensibly based on that information.

@robots
Forgot to mention, use noscript to block Google analytics around the web. Otherwise while you may not use Google, they're using you. Same goes for Facebook.

@cykros noscript + adblock plus + https everywhere + hosts file tweaks. Seems pretty effective, although many sites won't even load. Probably for the best.

Google is very hard to delete indeed, but think about this. Many people still uses windows because they are forced to by their companies.

@robots
Well these days especially with GPU passthrough methods you can literally put a fully functioning windows install into a VM with native performance (even for gaming). This is definitely harder than just switching, but if you have to use it for work, it's an effective mitigation and allows you to compartmentalize your activity. For the true paranoids, there's QubesOS which aims to give separate OS's for every separate activity you engage in.

I'd still say easier than deleting G.

@robots Do I get credit for levels 2-4 if I never had any of those things? haha

@bwhaines Nope, no credits until all objectives are completed! :bloblewd:

@deutrino
Let me guess? It's google that is still in your life. That's the one for me. Who would have thought 10 years ago that they would be harder to get rid of than fucking Windows.
@robots

@verbalshadow
Yup, it's Google. No end in sight for me either, I'm heavily invested in the Android platform and due to reasons that won't change soon, can't have a #googledivorce yet. I don't use them for email tho.
@robots

@robots not all of these can be delete. Some of these are required by professional part of my life...

@robots

I deleted Facebook, Instagram and Linkedin

for me twitter and Gmail are the hardest bits

For different reasons

@robots What level is one at if one never had an account with facebook, instagram, twitter, whatsapp, and is working on google and only uses Linux on their own machines. (sorry can't help work mandates)? BTW where is good email so I can drop my gmail account?

@waspentalive
@robots
I never had any of them except for Twitter which I no longer use. I have a gmail account but I am slowly switching over to protonmail. I've also read good things about tutanota.

@waspentalive I recommend Fastmail. It's a paid service with good privacy policy and a lot of features.