Today we’re launching Opt Out October, our guide for opting out of certain features and finding alternatives to products made by big tech companies. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/happy-opt-out-october-lets-find-real-alternatives-tech-giants
Today we’re launching Opt Out October, our guide for opting out of certain…
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Happy Opt Out October! Let’s Find Real Alternatives to the Tech Giants
Over the years, the major tech companies have found all sorts of ways to embed themselves into our lives. We often use their software, their AI tools, their social media, and their operating systems by default without even thinking about potential alternatives. It’s time to rethink that...
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@eff this is a great idea! My org Rebel Tech Alliance has a free step by step course to help people opt out of #bigtech - The #BigTechWalkout
https://cademy.io/rebel-tech-alliance/courses
Also Take Back Big Tech are organising Attention Strikes in October and November: https://takebackbigtech.com/attention-strike
It would be great if you could boost both 🙂
Rebel Tech Alliance
Enrol in our world famous Big Tech Walkout courses! They're free, and they'll enable to you break free from big tech's surveillance and control. About Us Rebel Tech Alliance is a non-profit whose main objective is to stop Big Tech spying on us and monetising our personal data. We do this by undermining the creepy targeted ads business model they use: Surveillance Capitalism (aka the Surveillance Economy, or the Attention Economy). And we do that by helping you switch to using different tech that doesn't support that data-hungry business model. You can achieve this with our Big Tech Walkout programme. Why switch? Because Big Tech have become too rich to have to change. Too big to jail. There is a dark side to their addictive recommendation algorithms and the surveillance economy that you many not have realised: at scale they lay the foundations for a surveillance state and threaten democracy itself. And now AI is making all that much worse...
cademy.ioOpting out is easier when the replacement is named, tested, and boring enough to keep using. Which alternative has survived the longest in your own setup?