A book on escaping surveillance capitalism/the broligarchy

I'm a former journalist, and created a free resource called DISENGAGE: Opting Out—and Finding New Options—to Reclaim Your Life from Spammers, Scammers, Intrusive Marketers and Big Tech.

It's available in PDF and full text on the website, plus EPUB at Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Smashwords, and other retailers.

It costs $0. No email needed, no tracking, no affiliate links. It was a passion project and I'm just trying to get the word out.

(If you know anyone in the press who may want a hardcopy, i printed up a couple dozen in print format on my own dime...just let me know!)

Enjoy!

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Link https://www.punchinguppress.com/post/disengage-from-the-internet and ToC :

    

Part 1: Why Disengage?
    Chapter 1: What We’re Fighting Against
    Chapter 2: How Do We Reclaim Our Lives By Disengaging?
    Chapter 3: Giants In The Dark

Part 2: Disengage By…Reclaiming Your Data
    Chapter 4: Pay Attention to Privacy Policies
    Chapter 5: Control Your Online Accounts
    Chapter 6: Bash The Brokers
    Chapter 7: Surf In Secret
    Chapter 8: Escape Email Tracking
    Chapter 9: Protect Your Phone
    Chapter 10: Stop Being Loyal

Part 3: Disengage By…Reclaiming Your Home
    Chapter 11: Hide Your Home Address
    Chapter 12: Remove Your Home Photos From The Web
    Chapter 13: Banish Smart Products From Your Spaces

Part 4: Disengage By…Reclaiming Your Content
    Chapter 14: Protect Your Posts
    Chapter 15: Retract Your Reviews
    Chapter 16: Say Sayonara To Social Media

Part 5: Disengage By…Reclaiming Your Attention
    Chapter 17: Don’t Surf If You Don’t Need To
    Chapter 18: Annihilate Ads
    Chapter 19: Say See Ya To Your Smartphone
    Chapter 20: Ghost Corporate News

Part 6: Disengage By…Quitting The Big 4
    Chapter 21: Say Goodbye To Google
    Chapter 22: Say Au Revoir To Amazon
    Chapter 23: Say Arrivederci To Apple
    Chapter 24: Say Mmm-Bye To Microsoft

Part 7: Live Your Life

Thanks for sharing the TOC! Great idea.
- My pleasure, thanks for sharing all this important knowledge!
  PS: I have few related things on https://fabien.benetou.fr/Cookbook/DigitalSelfSovereignty so I'd be curious to hear your opinion on it.

- As you can see, the book is aimed more at newbies (and people with low-medium level tech knowledge) like myself.
Thank you. I have saved the post, but it seems the publishing website doesn't like TOR exit nodes? I can't seem to reach the page through TOR. I'll try again later
- Oh no! Heck if I know...it's just a Wix site. If you want to share a (masked!) email, I can email you the EPUB or PDF directly. I'm at punchinguppress@proton.me. Sorry about that!
  
  Thank you, I'll get to it shortly. Dang it's times like this that make me wish I was running Qubes but alas...
  Also, you really shouldn't give out your email like that. Head to SimpleLogin or Addy and get yourself an email alias too
Hey dude, I'm interested in an EPUB copy. And I'll share it with others who will benefit.
How about this for an alt email: dontsellmydata@tuta.com 😂
- Will send, thanks!
Hi! Tried a few options to download the epub and they all required login Is there one that doesn't or it'll have to settle with PDF?
- I can send you an EPUB directly! Later (when I have time) I'll put a button on there for direct EPUB download as well as the various stores. You can email me at punchinguppress@proton.me if you feel comfortable doing so, or I'll post again when EPUB is on the site.
- Hi! I finally got the EPUB onto the site as a direct download.
I've been doing what's in the guide for several years but its good to see a well structured and well presented resource like this anyway.
Theyve convinced normie that his valuable resources are valueless, and absent a better role model that won't change (he's not the type who thinks from first principles)
- Thanks! That's an alias account. Normally I'd use a masked email, but for the press I wanted something a bit more pro looking. If it starts getting spam, it's easy to delete/change.

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