Think Big, Shop Small, part 3

My Not Quite Recommendations Operating System Does It Work, Though Or Not Web Browser Data Extraction Exploration Privacy Readability Utility Other Web Browsers Search Engine Graphical Work Social Networks and Chats Other Local Software Media News Shopping Other No More Excuses When I started this “series” of posts, I mentioned that for all the time that I spend implying that you should probably walk away from big companies (technology-wise and not) for independent and especially Free Culture counterparts, I haven’t laid out the whys and hows. From there, I introduced the idea of distancing ourselves from large companies, which all increasingly seem to want to make our lives miserable, with links to a tiny fraction of the evidence for that perspective. I explained that this necessary distance does you good, not necessarily the world unless it becomes a huge movement. That came with my own example, looking to move off the Roku platform to watch media on my television. One of the few…