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We just took our first step and cancelled Netflix! It's a small thing compared to some of you, but we're here to stay! Becoming more and more aware and striving to buy European!

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[–] gruvn@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Canadian here - canceled Amazon Prime, and deleted Meta's Facebook and Messenger. I also canceled my Norton subscription and will be replacing it with Avast. I'm canceling Google One cloud storage and have changed my default search engine to Quant.
I know I'm just one family, but if we all do this kind of stuff, what a world it would be!

[–] otaj@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Avast and Norton are one company for couple years now https://www.gendigital.com/

Source: worked for Avast right before the merger, left because didn't like the merger

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] gruvn@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Thanks for the tip - hadn't heard about the Avast news, and wasn't aware Windows Defender might be sufficient. I'll look into it.

I'll confess to still using WhatsApp, cause I don't have it in my heart to force my 80 year old mother to learn signal.

Oh - and I'm replacing gmail (email and calendar) with Proton. I think the CEO isn't great, but it's a very similar service, and it's not US based. Any recommendations for alternatives to Android and Apple? I'm getting less comfortable with how much data Google has (and I don't like iOS).

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Another thing is virustotal is a good site for scanning programs before running it, since it'll scan it with every possible virus scanner available.

Windows defender and browsing the web with something ublock origin to block ads is sufficient. And just having virustotal scan a program before running it will protect you from most stuff.

If you do insist on a third party virus scanner then eset is one I used to use for years before sticking with defender. It is from Slovakia.

[–] Renohren 2 points 23 hours ago

Virus total has been bought by Google. It's what is behind plastore protection.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately, phone OSes alternatives are still far behind Android and iOS for most people.

But you can use a de-Googled Android distribution: Graphene (probably the best choice but Google Pixel only and may have a learning curve), Calyx, Lineage, eOS.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Proton the company recently deleted their Mastodon to exclusively use Twitter. They are very sketchy.

[–] sniggleboots@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago

"very sketchy" compared to what standard though

[–] sykaster@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

I already didn't use Facebook or Messenger, so that was easy for us. Good one on Norton, I'll be cancelling that one next!