Migrating away from the US tech I use
Why am I doing this.
- Because of the outrageous behaviour of the Trump administration, some american citizens are advocating stopping consumption of big tech goods and services. I want to suport that trend. Big tech refers to the top 6 tech companies: Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia.
- I want to move away from companies engaged in Surveillance Capitalism. The two most blatently engaged in this type of surveillance are Meta, and Google.
Note for canadians
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Canadians data privacy and foreign servers
Migration Log
Below is a log of the the services I have replaced. I intend it to grow as I complete more changes to the services I use and how I use them.
AWS S3 and cloudshare
I switched to: Bunny.net for both storage and CDN
I moved 3 static web sites to bunny.net.
Bunny.net jurisdiction overview
Steps I took to migrate to Bunny.net
Google Chrome, google search engine, google AI (gemini), google translate
Google is the worst offender with respect to Surveillance Capitalism.
I switched to: Mozilla Firefox and Thor, duckduckgo search, Claude AI, and Claude AI for translation
I use Mozilla Firefox for day to day use and Thor for high privacy.
Another option for translation is DeepL.com.