Ep. 110 "Data Minimalistic?" #tech

On the heals of an episode on where our attention goes when we are bored, Facebook turned 15, and a book on Digital Minimalism was released. Chris and AJ talk about what your data (bored or otherwise) says and can cost you, and some ways to go about changing that.


Listener comments from Ep 109

“I have found my book to read to escape boredom and utilise my time to continue learning! #bhampodcast” Richard Vinhais (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1532386451/ref=sr_1_2_twi_har_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549583739&sr=8-2&keywords=discovering+time#): *Discovering Time: stories from a collector community -via Danc21cy (http://instagram.com/danc21cy/)

AJ

Via Molly Wood; “Jim McKelvey is the co-founder of the payments and processing giant Square. He's got a startup called Invisibly that's part micro-payments where you pay for individual articles and part ad tech where you, the reader, can earn free articles by trading more data.”

* FEB 5 Episode https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381443930/future-tense
* His startup (launches “whenever it is ready”_) : http://www.invisibly.com/
* Plugin called Passport: http://www.invisibly.com/passport/
* (this reminds me a lot of Brave Rewards (https://brave.com/creators/) sans tokenization )

Art of Manliness : Cal Newport (yes he is on our Libro.FM reading list) “Digital Minimalist”
https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/digital-minimalism-cal-newport/

*Messaging*

*Social*
I agree with Newport, I'm not opposed to a social internet, but rather a filtered social network that is a business.

Chris

*Search without Google*

* start.duckduckgo.com (http://start.duckduckgo.com/) - a search engine that doesn't track or share any of your information. Plus bangs!

*Email without Gmail*

* Protonmail (https://protonmail.com/) - secure email based out of switzerland, free account available

*Messaging* without FB messenger, Android Message, iMessage...or Slack

* Signal (https://www.signal.org/) - free group, text, voice, video, document and picture messages to anyone in the world. End-to-end encryption.
* Wire (https://app.wire.com/) - Secure messaging, file sharing, voice calls and video conferences. All protected with end-to-end encryption. Free for friends/family use

Resources for stopping trackers

* Firefox Multi-Account Containers (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiHmYLgrKXgAhU6JDQIHbxmCZsQFjAAegQICRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2Fmulti-account-containers%2F&usg=AOvVaw3AurZSwyv--ObOUrs-lOEJ)
* uBlock Origin - Available for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm) (for a limited time) and Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/)
* Privacy Badger - Available for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp) and Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/?src=search)
* Brave (https://brave.com/) ( their new video (https://vimeo.com/282341981))

Helpful websites

* Switching.social (https://switching.social/) - ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives
* Privacy Heroes (https://privacyheroes.io/) - privacy-focused online services on a mission to defend Internet users from surveillance, hacking, and censorship.