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One day, I’ll share a post about just how challenging and time-consuming is to remove Google from your life (but not impossible)

#degoogle #google #bigtech


Discover why Nextcloud is the go-to alternative to #BigTech for organizations prioritizing data sovereignty! 🚀

🔒 With Nextcloud, you maintain full control over your data while ensuring robust, stable, and feature-rich private cloud collaboration.

https://youtu.be/uhrF1F3d2f0


Nextcloud Hub 10 introduces Nextcloud Assistant 3.0 with #AIAgency, end-to-end encryption, and performance boosts! 🚀

Break free from #BigTech: choose privacy and innovation with Nextcloud!

#Nextcloud #OpenSource #E2EE #PrivateCloud

https://youtu.be/OkGd_pNuYww


80% of German SMEs use Microsoft Office versions ending support in 2025 — It's time for a change!

Switch to Nextcloud Office for #openSource flexibility, data sovereignty, and GDPR compliance.

Take control of your data and avoid #BigTech's grip!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-office-your-privacy-upgrade-as-microsoft-office-end-of-life-approaches/


"Nextcloud challenges cloud powers with Hub 10 release" 💪

The recent story by ZDNet dives into replacing the #BigTech SaaS with privacy-friendly all-in-one private cloud where you call the shots.

🔗 Read the article here:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/nextcloud-challenges-cloud-powers-with-hub-10-release/


Impact millions with your open source contributions! 🚀

Nextcloud's open source nature empowers devs to innovate with the best
#OpenSource #TechCommunity in the world. 🎉

Help us build the best alternative to #BigTech!

https://nextcloud.com/developer/


When will #Nextcloud open a #PeerTube channel?

#YouTube is also #BigTech. Challenge them too!

I seldomly boost posts with links to BigTech.


You asked, we built it! See what Nextcloud Hub 10 is about! ✨

Not only we challenged the #BigTech once again, but delivered countless performance improvements you asked for!

Watch Nextcloud Hub 10 in action:
https://youtu.be/OkGd_pNuYww


The EuroStack initiative recognizes Nextcloud as a "Key Software Company", and a showcase model for building European sovereign alternatives to #BigTech.

Help us build a resilient digital ecosystem based on European values with global impact!

#EuroTech

https://www.euro-stackreport.info/


"Nextcloud is, by far, one of the best tools I've experienced in a very long time."

ZDNET's Jack Wallen shares his love of Nextcloud, and how to escape #BigTech cloud to protect your data privacy. 🕵🏾

What do you use to protect your #DataPrivacy?

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/7-apps-that-helped-me-escape-the-cloud-and-protect-my-data-privacy/


Google supera los 100.000 millones de beneficio y permitirá el uso militar de su IA en conflictos como el de Gaza

La compañía elimina los vetos que impedían el uso de su tecnología en sistemas que violen los derechos humanos mientras presenta unas ganancias récord

#GAFAM #BigTech

https://www.eldiario.es/tecnologia/google-supera-100-000-millones-beneficio-permitira-militar-inteligencia-artificial_1_12027131.html


🔒 Webinar: Governments can break free from #BigTech!

Discover how Nextcloud Talk offers true digital sovereignty, data privacy, and GDPR compliance compared to MS Teams.

📆 Thu Feb 6
🕦 4pm CET / 10am ET

Choose Nextcloud for true digital sovereignty!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/event/beyond-microsoft-teams-why-public-sector-organizations-choose-nextcloud-talk-for-secure-communication/


Thank you for all those sharing your opinion with us here! Especially around AI and performance improvements. We hope it doesn't surprise you that we feel very much the same about where #BigTech AI is headed, which is exactly why we're trying to make a difference with off-by-default AI features in Nextcloud that, if desired, can help you host local AI models of your choice that don't send your personal data away to the Big 5.


Nextcloud's federation: for a better digitally sovereign future!

At the core of Nextcloud's mission: We don't want to live in a world where 5 #BigTech companies control all communication and collaboration.

We all deserve something better!

https://youtu.be/exuVtfM8-5Q


I like the key finding: "Consolidation of power in Big Tech companies creates over-reliance on single points of failure. Diversity creates strength: the internet should not be confined to narrow pathways and walled gardens."

#bigtech REALLY needs to be limited. The question is - how?


La campaña de exterminio iniciada por las FDI desde el pasado 7 de octubre de 2023 ha contado con el apoyo de Amazon, Microsoft y Google, con servicios que hacen posible el uso de la inteligencia artificial en los ataques a Gaza y a Líbano.

#bigtech
https://sursiendo.org/2024/11/la-intervencion-militar-de-las-bigtech/


La intervención militar de las ‘bigtech’

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, X y Meta tienen papeles protagonistas en la guerra contra el pueblo palestino.

#IA #Censura #GAFAM #Bigtech
👇🏼
https://sursiendo.org/2024/11/la-intervencion-militar-de-las-bigtech/


Todo el tiempo aparecen reportajes, notas, reseñas... sobre el daño que hacen las #BigTech y seguimos excusándolas, dándoles poder, beneficiándolas... ¿hasta cuándo?


+1 reason why you must stop using Chrome and, if possible, Chromium browsers

(Upd: link to a post in Fediverse with tech details https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112757810519145581)

(Upd 2: MS Edge seems to have this issue; #Vivaldi also has it but it can be disabled; Ungoogled Chromium doesn't have it at all)

#Privacy #Tech #Technology #Browser #Chrome #Chromium #Firefox #Google #BigTech


It turns out Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on .gg.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage

You can test it out by pasting the following into your Chrome DevTools console on any Google page:

chrome.runtime.sendMessage(
"nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome",
{ method: "cpu.getInfo" },
(response) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response, null, 2));
},
);

More notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/



Considering a move from #BigTech for increased data privacy?

Discover 16 Nextcloud apps as alternatives to Google and Apple:

Put yourself in control of your data with calendar 📅, contacts 📞, photos 📷, notes 📝, tasks ✅, passwords 🔒, and more!

@thelinuxEXP

https://youtu.be/MlLrcpXBB_A


...Sharp contrast? Then why are they the same color as those companies?

#bigtech #Microsoft


At the #NextcloudConference Austrian lawyer and privacy activist @maxschrems gave an inspiring keynote about taking on Big Tech in the courts - and winning. Twice! Listen to the harrowing tale of European courts, politicians playing games and lobbying to sell out European citizens' data. And what comes next! #privacy #lobbying #BigTech

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-conference-2023-keynote-speaker-max-schrems/


While all software has security issues, the irresponsible behavior of Microsoft shows why anti-trust action is needed to reduce the stranglehold the big tech firms have over the cloud computing market. Without external pressure, companies tend to hide rather than fix problems. https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/microsoft-cloud-security-blasted-for-its-culture-of-toxic-obfuscation/ #security #bigtech #oversight


🇬🇧 New Rules for #BigTech? The EU's Digital Services Act (#DSA) does not protect you from the surveillance capitalist business model, including highly problematic timeline algorithms and platform censorship.

My comment: https://t.co/aQ59piYHJT https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/industry-friendly-eu-digital-services-act-leaves-big-tech-business-model-intact/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon


Shoshana Zuboff’s “The Age of #SurveillanceCapitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power” definitely lives up to its reputation. It’s a pummeling analysis of how #BigTech have taken over the modern era, harvesting information, details, sentiments, emotions, etc. from our lives, creating profiles & predictive models, & working to modify our behavior for the purpose of profit-making (all without most of us understanding or being aware of how we’ve been changed). #Reading
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Out now at @IJoC_USC@twitter.com: Our Special Section on „Afterlives of the #CalifornianIdeology: Tech Movements, Pioneer Communities, and Imaginaries of Digital Futures“, with @A_Schmitz_@twitter.com and @ntnsndr: #SiliconValley #pioneercommunities #BigTech #movement #future #maker https://t.co/bSX52WprwO


To save #news from #BigTech, we need to:
- Unrig the ad markets
- Abolish the #AppTax
- Kill #SurveillanceAds
- Make social media #EndToEnd
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech


If you want to force Big Tech to support local journalism, fine, but find another way. Don't destroy the link, which is basically tantamount to destroying the web.
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/01/meta-california-pull-news-threat

#bigtech #journalism #openweb


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If you don’t know what I mean when I say “surveillance capitalism” or “people farming”, here’s a quick overview I did for the BBC a little while ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia/p06p0tdy

(Where we differ with Shoshana, who coined the former term, is that she sees it as a corruption of capitalism, whereas I see it as the natural evolution of capitalism in the digital network age.)

#surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #BigTech #VentureCapital #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #corporatocracy


Just finished my talk. A panel in Norwegian is now discussing it in Oslo. Will post the recording once it’s up.

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