Grass Roots Strategy against Big Tech (?)

Vanity

[rbg81]

My first vanity, so please be gentle.

I did cancel my Twitter account (which I never used anyway). Thought about canceling FB, but the problem is that I used it to stay in touch with a lot of people I care about.

Also, trying to use DuckDuckGo instead of Google or Bing.

[PGalt]

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[PGalt]

Economic POW er. Use it.

[windowdude]

I was about to tell all my FB friends I was moving to Parler. That didn’t work out.

IMO, we can use FB to OUR advantage.

[Wonder Warthog]

Actually, I had the exact same thought. Costs them both money and customers. Even better, contact the advertisers directly and tell them so.

[polymuser]

Go back to landline phones and use BBS for chat.
Shop at local stores for American-made products.
Get off the web and cable.
Write and mail letters to acquaintances (supports USPS).

[KevinB]

Write and mail letters to acquaintances (supports USPS).

The same USPS whose union endorsed Plugs and whose employees contributed to the fraud that got Plugs installed? That one?

[Ken Regis]

No criticism from me!

You’re thinking of achievable options and ACTING on them.

Good for you!

[Born to Conserve]

USE AN AD BLOCKER when on their sites.

[JonPreston]

Here is my "brilliant" idea. Stay on sites like FB. But post on a regular basis that you REFUSE to do business with ANY of their advertisers

Thanks for this excellent idea. Get their email addy and drop them a line saying that you'll stay away for as long as they advertise on anti-1st amendment venues.

[Saveourcountry]

Go a step further. After writing that, go to the advertisers site on Facebook and give them a bad review. You don’t even have to put in a comment. A one star review will do damage
A lot of them will do a lot of damage

[TarasBulbous]

Facebook makes most of their revenue off of selling your data, not advertisers. When an app or social media service is free, YOU are the product.

[Alberta's Child]

There’s something to be said about maintaining a presence on these social media garbage dumps. In fact, I’d recommend setting up multiple accounts with fake names and identities — just so you can use them to access any websites that require a Facebook account to log into something.

Just make sure you make note of the advertisers that pop up on your social media pages ... and send them an e-mail from a separate address to let them know you’re NOT a 90 year-old black woman living in Detroit. These websites will fall apart once the advertisers lose confidence in the accuracy of the demographic profiles they’re using.

[CarolinaPeach]

I’ve been blocking as many ads as possible because they are ‘irrelevant’ or ‘repetitious’ for quite some time.

Peach

[janetjanet998]

Donate any stimulus money to places like Gab or here

then impose a 1% payroll tax on yourself to continue to help fund them

[Saveourcountry]

Before giving the advertisers bad reviews, email them to stop advertising there. A lot of the advertisers are small business who we want to protect.

[Bayard]

Everyone should be using a VPN service.

[flatpickingflyer]

What I have done so far:

* Opened accounts on Gab.com (seems better than Parler), Parler, MeWe.
* Permanently deleted my Facebook account. (13 year account holder)
* Cancelled Amazon Prime membership.
* Signed up for Rush 24/7 to avoid the seeBS updates at the breaks.
* Been using DuckDuckGo for a while.

[Saveourcountry]

That is a good point. Facebook ads are very cheap
That’s why small businesses use them.They aren’t making much money from ads.

[Fai Mao]

I want to start a series a series of cryptic posting on FB, that looks like a code. Kind of like Q but more sinister sounding. Ideally I’d have several other people making comments using the same obvious code. I want it to be stuff lie the great Kreskin used to say that could be taken multiple ways. After any kind of riot or social unrest I,d post a statement like “Goal #12 achieved!” Just to troll the censors. Maybe give some moron the willies.