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!
There are a couple of streaming services in Europe. It seems that most of them are targeted at specific countries, but still.
I have enjoyed a Norwegian one with mainly Norwegian content and BritBox, with a little bit of Hollywood stuff sprinkled on top.
Every single step towards IT independance is good to take, while some can afford to ditch Windows for Linux, erase all their subscriptions, it’s not as easy for others. Every cent that they don’t make from us is the better.
Still have the moral dilemma of cancelling my WoW subscription 😭😭
Out of spite against blizzard I started using private WoW servers a few months ago.
I settled on one called Chromiecraft for several reasons:
- The server code Is open source.
- It has a huge European presence.
- Non profit.
Oh my god, you’re god-sent, I cancelled my WoW sub 3 days ago, tried to go on Stormforge private server but had to many issues with the client and such but it wasn’t focused toward Linux users. I will try Chromiecraft as soon as I can tonight !!
cough kodi cough realdebrid cough
Canadian here. We cancelled Netflix and all of our Apple services.
It’s the churn that will really hurt the U.S. companies when they realize the only ones buying their products are Americans, and in order to appease their share holders they’ll need to have price increases more often and much higher.
Keep it up. Vote with your wallet.
American here and I’ve cancelled a lot of subscriptions over the past month. I’m basically only paying for essentials like groceries, utilities, various insurance plans and gas. A lot of us here are doing what we can to reduce our spending.
Unfortunately I lost access to Viaplay (Swedish streaming service) after my girlfriend cancelled her Amazon Prime membership. Prime had to go, but I miss my Nordic noir.
Netflix has become trash over the years anyway, you’re all better off with other services.
Does anyone know of a recommendation engine as robust as Netflix? Trying to talk my wife into canceling, but it’s very good at suggesting new content, which is hard to let go of.
I’ve been liking www.justwatch.com a lot
Kodi with Real Debrid. I have used it for a couple of years now. Can get everything as soon as it comes to streaming. I run it through an nvidia shield but you can use fire sticks or chromecast, you also need a VPN and ~$10 every 6 months subscription fee. It’s a bit of an upfront cost and will take maybe half an hour to set up but it’s totally worth it. I haven’t paid for a single streaming channel in about 5 years so it’s paid for itself several times now.
What extension do you use on Kodi?
Fen lite
i only have gmail, netflix and windows 10 to replace. gmail is easy but time consuming. on netflix is dragon ball daima 😭
microshaft windowns 10 is the hardest for me. most of my games arent from steam.
I already made a Tuta account and am shifting the subscriptions to that one, but I will wait until email import is introduced to shift completely.
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!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
Avast had privacy violations.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/did-avast-sell-your-data-heres-how-to-get-a-piece-of-the-ftc-settlement
Windows defender is good enough if you are on Windows.
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).
Proton the company recently deleted their Mastodon to exclusively use Twitter. They are very sketchy.
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.
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.