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I'm permanently boycotting Amazon, Walmart, Target, U.S. automakers (that includes parts purchases as I do repair vehicles from time to time.) Facebook (including marketplace) and starting a local online forum. I never did use anything else much and I've been boycotting Reddit obviously. Online streaming companies. Finally taking steps to completely degoogle, although yt will be difficult, but i've been leaching off of them ad free for, since the site started, so I'm costing them a lot of money I think. I could just auto download into my seedbox so they can't track me. I'm going to make sure to buy used items when I can. Go to my local shops more and the farmers market. I'm also going to plant more variety in my garden this year, it's usually not worth it, but this year I'm full of spite.
I honestly got lazy about avoiding these companies, and it's time to take it seriously again.
my big sins currently are amazon and google with a dash of microsoft given linkedin and github. I think that is it but I could be missing something. I don't plan on stopping were I am at with reducing.
You could always make a personal website instead of linkedin. I deleted mine as it never yeilded anything worthwhile for me.
The main reason is I existed before linkedin and the thing with workmates is you don't necessarily get their email or phone number. So I have no connection to people I worked with before 2000 but now I have this tacit connection. I also search for jobs on it but that is a bit more of effect that im on it already. Also I would have to host the personal website or if I did not then im getting the worst of both worlds. my stuff is on some other system, but I have more management I have to do, and it does not really get me what I want.