Google has become increasingly intrusive in our lives. i’ve decided to escape from it’s clutches… and also document the way out to begin with i’m only escaping in my private life… i will try to escape at work, but if it interferes with what i do, then i have to use what works.. this wouldn’t be a fight i can win there. so i’ve got to be careful to not contaminate my effort.

Baby Steps first

Years of being unobservant have left me in a bad place…

bad, but not unrecoverable.

Password manager

the first thing to pull back to my control are my passwords.

i’ve exported all my passwords from google chrome and loaded them into a password manager. I chose Password Gorilla because it was cross platform, and simple with no advanced features.. So there’s nothig for me to fuck up.

Web Browser

now that all my passwords are safe, time to uninstall chrome… after downloading firefox..

Search Engine

stop using google..

as far as i know duck duck go are at least not owned by google, and also claims not to track you

Progress made

as with any big project, you never finish fast.. The stalker still has it’s claws deep into me and it’s going to be hard getting away..

but there has been progress.. i’ve stopped telling google everything i do directly on the web.

they can still see a lot, but it’s not a complete dataset now.

so, yeah