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Hey everyone,

Iโ€™ve been thinking a lot about how to help my parents reduce their reliance on American Big Tech (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.). Theyโ€™re not tech-savvy, and I donโ€™t want to overwhelm them or make them feel like Iโ€™m forcing a radical change. At the same time, Iโ€™m concerned about privacy, data collection, and the monopolistic practices of these companies.

Any ideas? First of all I thought about ecosia, I see that it returns more similar results to google than Qwant.

I want to buy them Threema licence.

I installed Le Chat as chatgpt replacement, moved some documents to Synology Nas

Whatโ€™s next?

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[โ€“] Kkk2237pl@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

They are impacted more than you think. My mom uses chat gpt more often than I did.

Facebook, messenger, google as default browser and search engine. Even when she search for something she chooses โ€žgoogleโ€ app instead of browser Google Chrome- so its harder to switch her to ecosia ;)

I see how much crap my dad and mom watch from facebook stories. Misinformation is on the other level thereโ€ฆ (talking from Poland perspective, we have russian propaganda in our socials)