Leaving the Matrix
So if you have read my article about how you can start to use Linux ( Starting the Journey). Maybe you want to proceed a step further.
We live in a world which is under a dire pressure of surveillance capitalism the biggest threat of our times. If you haven't checked out this movie, I would highly recommend you this to show you the flaws and problems and where this can lead to.
The analysis of the movie is correct. But there are no solutions offered there.
But there is a solution, leave the matrix, by matrix I mean surveillance capitalism.
Here I have curated a big list of alternatives, there is nearly for everything an alternative you are not bound to the FANGULTAD universe
Facebook(i.e. Meta) Amazon Netflix Google(i.e. Alphabet) Uber LinkedIn Two Sigma Apple Dropbox FANGULTAD or in short FANG or FAANG
Get out of their FANG's ;)
And forget about their free services there is only one true free thing and that is open source, open hardware and decentralized/federalized/Peer-to-peer own hosted social networks like the fediverse/mastodon. And keep in mind if something is free you are the product. Here is a nice video about that.
All credit goes to the nice folks at the fediverse who helped me find these alternatives. Thank you all so much! <3
To be able to fully understand the impact of some services here is a list of privacy and open source services which rely on the FANGULTAD universe. This is no offense to the services per se. But it reflects the situation perfect:
https://codeberg.org/ReverseEagle/DeGoogle-FOSS/src/branch/master/PROJECTS_USING_GOOGLE.md
Also check out Aral Balkans stuff he is a cool dude:
Don't use Zoom check out the alternatives at https://switching.software/replace/zoom/ but if you must use due to whatever reasons you can use a VM, see this link(PDF!):
https://assets.privacytools.io/aragon-drop/zoom_tutorial.pdf
Unfortunately this link is gone for good. But the Wayback Machine has a backup. You are welcome :)
Or use Aral Balkans method:
https://ar.al/2020/06/25/how-to-use-the-zoom-malware-safely-on-linux-if-you-absolutely-have-to/
Zoom is nasty Malware like 
This should be the goal :)
https://privacytools.io/ https://privacytests.org/ https://www.privacyguides.org/ https://web0.small-web.org/ https://switching.software/ https://flossmanuals.net/ https://opensource.builders https://prism-break.org/en/ https://framasoft.org/en/ https://framalibre.org/ https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives/ https://entraide.chatons.org/en/ https://alternativeto.net/ https://tutanota.com/ A secure E-Mail Provider, better then ProtonMail https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_31d.htm https://fediverse.party/ https://e.foundation/products/ https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2021/nitrophone-most-secure-android-planet https://iode.tech/en/ https://guardianproject.info/ https://brianlovin.com/security https://ssd.eff.org/en https://www.kuketz-blog.de/ (If you speak German, an awesome blog!) This link is defunct! https://media.kuketz.de/blog/messenger-matrix/messenger-matrix-en.html (also in english) https://www.messenger-matrix.de/ https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html https://www.kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke/ An awesome place to start for German speakers/readers https://small-tech.org/ https://sitejs.org/ https://ar.al/ https://write.as/ https://tenor.com/ https://gifer.com/en/gifs/giffer https://librivox.org/ https://privnote.com/# https://riseup.net/en https://share.riseup.net/ https://2017.ind.ie/ethical-design/ Ethical design manifesto https://publicstack.net https://www.wikipedia.org/ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page https://leafletjs.com/ https://mega.io/ https://wormhole.app/ disclaimer hosted in US, patriot act! https://operationtulip.com/ https://ethical.net/resources/ https://www.zotero.org/blog/improved-pdf-retrieval-with-unpaywall-integration/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unpaywall/ https://unpaywall.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-hub if you are a poor student use this only with tor in a vm! https://gagarine.medium.com/use-sci-hub-with-zotero-as-a-fall-back-pdf-resolver-cf139eb2cea7 https://wikiless.org/ A good alternative to wikipedia https://codeberg.org/orenom/wikiless#why-i-should-use-wikiless-instead-of-wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno.org https://vimeo.com/ An alternative to youtube https://github.com/pfrazee/ctzn https://whyprivacymatters.org/ https://goodreports.com/ https://ngrok.com/ Port forwarding made easy and secure https://tosdr.org/ https://funkwhale.audio/
“…Funkwhale is an open source and self-hosted music streaming service that helps you upload, share and enjoy music.”
https://substack.com/about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_content=footer https://frame.work/about An awesome open hardware vendor https://12ft.io/ https://friendly.io/ https://www.humanetech.com/ https://www.humanetech.com/take-control https://osint.info/index.php?title=Main_Page https://challengepower.info/ https://buggedplanet.info/index.php?title=Main_Page https://repaircafe.org/en/visit/ https://seahost.de https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped Imperial Library of Trantor see below http://kx5thpx2olielkihfyo4jgjqfb7zx7wxr3sd4xzt26ochei4m6f7tayd.onion/ https://www.ifixit.com/Info/index
iFixit is a wiki-based site located in the United States that teaches people how to fix almost anything. Anyone can create a repair manual for a device, and anyone can also edit the existing set of manuals to improve them. Our site empowers individuals to share their technical knowledge with the rest of the world.
Some useful add-ons:
https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials this Add-On isn't as good as I've thought don't use it better change the default search engine in your browser. privacy badger https everywhere NoScript ublock origin #decentraleyes use this instead its better https://www.localcdn.org/ https://github.com/rickwierenga/sci-hub-injector An Add-on which lets you enjoy science papers update(20.01.22) well a few days ago this project died. The King/Link is dead, long life the King/Link :) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scihub-injector/ Thx <3 to Josias([@]josias@floss.social)
https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/better
This extension looks at your current URL, and recommends “better” product/service alternatives via an in-page pop-up. “Better” could mean ethical / privacy-conscious / secure / local / cheaper / high-quality etc. This should work for both Chromium-based (Chrome, Brave, Chromium etc) AND Firefox-based browsers.
– nileshtrivedi
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better/fhblooichgponllpehbkpihicebfgfll https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-alternatives/
Cheers :)