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:hiking_boot: The Noble Eightfold Path

🥾 The Noble Eightfold Path

The Noble Eightfold Path is an early summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to liberation from samsara, the painful cycle of rebirth. Wikipedia


© Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF wants GFAM+ to fix their software to comply with sane security and privacy practices. I want to go one step further.

The Eight Pillars of Enlightenment

Disclaimer. I still use some of the listed culprits. This list is there to give new ideas.

One. Google

With Google Ads you will see how many people are shown your ads, visit your website, or call your business. You can even reach specific types of people if your business is specialized. Google Ads

Two. Facebook

Your next customers are here. FaceBook business

Three. Twitter

Reach the right audience by targeting based on interests, geography, gender, device, or users similar to your followers. In addition, maximize the relevancy of your message by targeting by keywords in people’s Tweets. Advertise on Twitter

Twitter’s enterprise API platform delivers real-time and historical social data to power your business at scale. Unleash the power of Twitter data (!)

Four. Microsoft

Verizon Media's partnership with Microsoft provides marketers with unrivaled access to premium, brand safe inventory with the highest viewability. Microsoft is home to solutions ranging from premium native and display to the emotion of video and transparent programmatic advertising. The Microsoft portfolio gives you power and scale with rich, first-party data from the Microsoft ID, Bing search and MSN browsing that makes your advertising even more effective. Put the power of the Verizon Media and Microsoft partnership to work for you (!)

Five. Dropbox

In July 2018, researchers at Northwestern University published an article in Harvard Business Review on the analysis of the habits of tens of thousands of scientists using anonymized data provided by Dropbox. The data used was over the period from May 2015 to May 2017 from all scientists using the platform across 1000 universities. Personal names attached to the data was removed by Dropbox, but according to Casey Fiesler, researcher at Colorado University, the folder titles and file structures that were provided could be used to identify individuals. Dropbox, later in a blog post, said that the reverse identification of the data was impossible. The data was provided without the express consent of the 16 thousand people whose information was accessed. Criticism of Dropbox

Six. Amazon

Do not use Amazon.

Seven. Apple

Do not use Apple products.

Eight. Spotify & Netflix

Buy CD's, DVD's, and BR's?

Epilogue

Alternatives to AlternativeTo, why, indeed, privacy does matter, and some surveillance self-defense.