Internet Freedom

This awesome and revolutionary tool we call the Internet is so powerful that it's becoming a threat to the freedom of the average user, who, in exchange for services, hands over his/her data, therefore giving up personal independence and liberty.

Here are noted various arguments, thoughts, speeches, documents, ideas and step-by-step guides to achievea healthier online experience

Resources

Random links about privacy online

• The Social Dilemma, a documentary on how Social Media are destroying the world and the ones who live in it (us)
• My Year Without Google
• Free Software, Richard Stallman
• Richard Stallman’s website
• Privacy Toolsthere are a lot of cool references here
• Why Privacy Matters - TED
• CryptoPaper
• Andy Yen (ProtonMail CEO) TED Talk
• Nothing to hide argument
  • How to counter it - 1
  • How to counter it - 2
• Blog article: how to live without tech giants
• ethical.net
• Human by Design
• Ethical Design
• Tech diet(anAWESOMEwebsite)
• https://www.designkit.org/resources
• great video privacy
• Why AMP is bad
• Presa Diretta “riprendiamoci i nostri dati”
• Luke Smith’s stuff
  • internet independence playlist
  • replace social media with RSS
• Open Media Codecs
• Google Watches You
• PolitePol: create an RSS feed for any page
• Movim, social network and XMPP messaging app
• Restore privacy - Google Alternatives
• Facebook Doesn’t tell users everything it really knows about them
• deGoogle by a single person
• Okuna
• Discussione diFilosofia di grupposu Dieci ragioni per eliminare il proprio account sui social media. Il mio intervento a al minuto44:45
• Do not track Documentary(2015)
• donttrack.us
• PrivacySpy
• PriBot
• The Social Dilemma creators interview
• Switching Software
• Take Controlof your tech life in seven moves
• WhatsApp vs Telegram vs Signal
• Why ditching WhatsApp - Vice
• EFF’s Surveillance Self Defense
• Open Wireless Movement

Roadmap

1. Quit Social Media
2. Backup, download, reorganize and clean data from Google Drive
   1. CheckStoragefolder
   2. CheckShared with mefolder
3. Reduce thedigital footprint
   1. Stop using pricey and unethical services
      1. Quit Spotify
   2. Delete unused accounts and subscriptions
   3. UseAnonAddyonly for online subscriptions
4. Check policies, usage terms, privacy conditions of all the tools and services in use
5. Self-host@tommi.spaceemail addresses
   1. Setup a mail server
   2. Completely switch to self-hosted mail server
      1. import Gmail data
      2. import Protonmail data
   3. AnonAddy everywhere on the web
6. Install and configureself-hosted appsonly

further steps

These are further improvements which aren’t likely to be achieved in the near future.

1. Install and useLineageOSinstead ofOxygenOS
2. Install and use aLinux distroinstead ofMacOS
3. Private DNS

Quit Spotify

Quitting Spotify is hard.

It’sveryhard, not only because it’s convenient and easy to use, mostly because almost everyone else uses it, thus creating playlists, sharing music and interacting with other music lovers becomes way harder without it. Therefore, quitting and finding another tool to listen to music isn’t enough: it’s necessary to replace the playlist creation and sharing workflow while keeping it accessible and easy to experience for anybody.

1. Find the optimalNewPipeconfiguration.
   • How to listen to whole albums
   • How to like songs
   • How to import Spotify liked songs
   • How to improve bitrate (it’s limited to 128kbps)
2. Copying Spotify playlist on otherFOSS alternatives
   • OpenWhyd
   • Radio4000
   • Audius Music(not a valid standalone option, it has its own limited music selection)
   • ?
3. Liked songs?
4. Spotify account deletion consequences:

Written byTommi