Anyone here use reddit as well? What’s your favourite Reddit app? Been trying to find a nice open source iOS app (I know - apple - but I don’t want to throw out something that still works).
@jenn Reddit feeds Amazon b/c it runs on AWS. So using reddit at all feeds a #privacy adversary. It may be hard to ditch #reddit altogether, but a phone app seems like an addiction-feeding way to give too much attention to Reddit & power to Amazon. If you limit yourself to using reddit on the desktop, it can help cut back on it. For the desktop, there is Simple Reddit terminal Viewer ("RTV") which is #freesoftware.
@resist1984 I’m pretty decent at regulating my phone use, but I am conscious of the possible reddit time waste. As for AWS, I don’t get as far as avoiding sites served by AWS or google. Props to those who find a way to do that, but I just take the trade off because SO many things are on those servers.
@jenn Captial One bank's customer data was stored on AWS and an AWS contractor leaked their data. I don't even know how to detect when a bank uses AWS internally. The best we can do is at least avoid the cases that are noticeable (doing an nslookup on reddit shows AWS).
@resist1984 I agree that it’s not great that the internet is concentrated on the servers of a few corporations but I don’t see the an effort like this: https://gizmodo.com/i-tried-to-block-amazon-from-my-life-it-was-impossible-1830565336 being worth it. I need the Internet for far too many things for work and day to day functioning.
@jenn Good story. To what extent avoiding empowering Amazon is possible is largely determined by someone's constitution and moral conviction. Most consumers are total pushovers and will go the unethical route if it saves them 0.5% on a purchase of something they don't really need anyway
@jenn the stronger your constitution is and awareness of evil, the more of Amazon you can avoid. It may never be 100% for anyone, but it's less than moral to not try and give up outright
@jenn as someone like that author, I am regularly redefining a /need/ to be /not needed/. That's a critical component of taking on evil giants.
@jenn i should also mention there is a browser extension called "Cloud Firewall" that gives you switches to block google, amazon, facebook, MS, Apple, CloudFlare.. you just tick the things you want to block. you can always unblock but it's a convenient way to become aware of the problem sites. You might still opt to visit a problem site but perhaps refrain from referring others to those
@jenn the fact that a huge portion of the world's services are in AWS is in itself cause for alarm - apart from the fact that Amazon is funding facial recognition to an extent that will ruin cities in the next ~8 or so years.