Become Worthless (to Tech Companies)

Cory Dransfeldt: Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech companies don’t value you, why provide value to them? If they back political positions hostile to your interests, why not return that hostility? I’m not arguing for boycotts, I know that people are bound to different platforms for different, compelling reasons. What I am arguing for is that, given the opportunity, you try and reduce the value they can extract from you. That’s very often your data, but it can also be a direct financial relationship. There’s a great list of things you can incorporate in your regular tech usage without leaving every service. In general, you don’t have to be truthful or accept every part of the power-imbalance.