I honestly think this would be for the better. I’d much rather have an internet where you have to pay a small monthly fee to use the popular websites, instead of making money off of spying on you and selling your data… I feel like it would be a lot healthier

though honestly the best solution to me would be to just nationalize social media, have like a state/continent provided neocities or something

thanks a lot for the useful addendum, I was writing this thinking most people who’d read it would be 100% windows + google people, so I tried suggesting what I thought was the most reasonable privacy/convenient balance, something people could move to without sacrificing much. sadly to live a free software zealot lifestyle is to make an immense amount of sacrifices that most people don’t want to or directly can’t make so I think it’s better to encourage gradual change rather than such a huge immediate migration…

The only thing I would like to add, I think revolt is free software but it’s not private because it’s not encrypted. So please be careful when using it.

also, I think it’d be useful to add some laptops that make it actually viable to run 100% free operating systems to the hardware section, since on most modern stuff it’s very common for it to not work out of the box - maybe some that support libreboot/dasharo??

you’re welcome!

you’re welcome i’m glad it helped!!

oh and if anyone has any questions or suggestions feel free to dm me!

no problem!

i dunno, people who don’t see the benefit in switching probably won’t switch even if it is easy, and people who do see the benefit… well if they don’t switch because of a mild inconvenience, i dunno, they probably didn’t actually care

it’s really not that bad, you can export your settings and any firefox-based browser can read them and do most of the things, the worst you’d have to do is reinstalling all your extensions

but seriously it’s like… a few hours of a single day at max, and in exchange you’ll be so much more private and secure. I recommend LibreWolf for an out-of-the-box privacy browser instead of having to customize tons of firefox settings to be truly private