Digital Dugnad

Digital Dugnad Dump Big Tech Make the Switch Make the switch. The Digital Dugnad campaign highlights four actions you can take - Switch your browser. Switch your search engine. Move your email. Change where you store your files. I’d suggest a fifth - dump MS and/or Apple and switch to a Linux distribution. The campaign suggests that each one takes minutes. That’s very misleading. Releasing your emails and downloading files and pictures from big tech is a bloody nightmare. That’s by design but one you will eventually wake from. Uploading all that stuff to your chosen new home is tedious. Not sure if there is a quick and easy way to change login emails. I never found one and had hundreds of sites where this applied. Prioritised the important ones and made my way through the others as and when I needed to. Many just got neglected since I no longer visited the sites where they applied. Switching to Linux was the low hanging fruit for me. Maybe start with that for a quick win. I mostly did…