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Re:I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants from My Life by Blocking... by soared on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:36PM (#19108335)
This was a great read! I think allowing aws/gcp hosted sites/apps and then also allowing apple would make this reasonably achievable for the average person. Apple is a tech giant, but they are very far from a monopoly. Allowing microsoft and google hosting might be a necessary evil at this point - too many valuable services rely on them.

That being said I would love to read this same article written by an average joe and not a wealthy san francisco techie. SF/Cali often forgets how the rest of the country/world lives - most of us don't casually get airbnbs, use encrypted chat apps, send large files, or chat with 5+ experts. Her <5 year old daughter has been on twice as many flights as I have.

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Re:I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants from My Life by Blocking... by mikestew on Thursday February 07, 2019 @04:43PM (#19108873)
That being said I would love to read this same article written by an average joe

I assumed that it was written by your "average Joe", given the difficulty with sending a large file. The user is on a Linux laptop, and none of the half dozen ways to pull that off come to mind? Okay, fair enough, some people's necks can't even grow a beard. But if you're saying that's not the case, I'm a little disappointed in the author.

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Re:I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants from My Life by Blocking... by mrgreenfur on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:54PM (#19108503)
Yeah, I liked this piece too.

It's a bit of an overreaction to block AWS and GCP, since in those cases google and amazon are not actively tracking you and you're blocking core infrastructure.

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Re:I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants from My Life by Blocking... by siedes on Thursday February 07, 2019 @05:26PM (#19109244)
>since in those cases google and amazon are not actively tracking you

For now :-)

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Re:I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants from My Life by Blocking... by jammygit on Friday February 08, 2019 @06:15PM (#19119564)
It was interesting however that it showed how centralized things have gotten. It shouldn't be so hard to disconnect from a mere 5 companies!

Edit: AWS in particular was interesting because it shows how much infrastructure has come under such centralized control.

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