RE Become worthless (to tech companies)

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/become-worthless-to-tech-companies Cory D's post hits all the right notes for where I'm at right now with technology. 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. The article reads like a checklist -- "have you unplugged this one yet?" [ ] Yes, my birthday is 1970-01-01 [ ] Yep, Patty Smith, that's me [ ] 321-456-0987 is a good number to reach me on. Or is it 0986? Any of them will work. Probably. [ ] Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, NextDNS, uBlock wherever possible [ ] robots.txt ? more like robots.nope [ ] CDs / DVDs / Blu-rays / Mirlo / Bandcamp. Yum. [ ] Digital NOcean. Can't get away from that one soon enough. Yeuchk. [ ] I've…