We just took our first step and cancelled Netflix! It’s a small thing compared to some of you, but we’re here to stay! Becoming more and more aware and striving to buy European!

  • gruvn@lemm.ee
    6·
    11 hours ago

    Canadian here - canceled Amazon Prime, and deleted Meta’s Facebook and Messenger. I also canceled my Norton subscription and will be replacing it with Avast. I’m canceling Google One cloud storage and have changed my default search engine to Quant.
    I know I’m just one family, but if we all do this kind of stuff, what a world it would be!

      • gruvn@lemm.ee
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Thanks for the tip - hadn’t heard about the Avast news, and wasn’t aware Windows Defender might be sufficient. I’ll look into it.

        I’ll confess to still using WhatsApp, cause I don’t have it in my heart to force my 80 year old mother to learn signal.

        Oh - and I’m replacing gmail (email and calendar) with Proton. I think the CEO isn’t great, but it’s a very similar service, and it’s not US based. Any recommendations for alternatives to Android and Apple? I’m getting less comfortable with how much data Google has (and I don’t like iOS).

        • matlag@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          9 hours ago

          Unfortunately, phone OSes alternatives are still far behind Android and iOS for most people.

          But you can use a de-Googled Android distribution: Graphene (probably the best choice but Google Pixel only and may have a learning curve), Calyx, Lineage, eOS.

    • sykaster@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      1·
      10 hours ago

      I already didn’t use Facebook or Messenger, so that was easy for us. Good one on Norton, I’ll be cancelling that one next!

  • AarynBlack@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    13 hours ago

    Friendly reminder about Amazon Prime: you don’t need Prime at all for free shipping and Amazon video definitely isn’t worth that price every year.

    Save yourself $150+ per year that you’re literally spending on nothing.

    • sykaster@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      4·
      10 hours ago

      Thanks! Never was a big fan of Amazon and we have great alternatives where I live, so luckily I never had to give Bezos any money hehe

  • wirebeads@lemmy.caEnglish
    17·
    15 hours ago

    Canadian here. We cancelled Netflix and all of our Apple services.

    It’s the churn that will really hurt the U.S. companies when they realize the only ones buying their products are Americans, and in order to appease their share holders they’ll need to have price increases more often and much higher.

    Keep it up. Vote with your wallet.

  • shawn1122@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    15 hours ago

    Does anyone know of a recommendation engine as robust as Netflix? Trying to talk my wife into canceling, but it’s very good at suggesting new content, which is hard to let go of.

  • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    13 hours ago

    I cancelled Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ a couple months ago. No more streaming subscription services for me! I’m very anti-subscription.

    Except for Curiosity Stream, which is like Netflix but for educational documentaries. Even with the cost of my subscription doubling in the last 4 years, I’m still only paying about $30/year for it. Way cheaper than Netflix, and highly educational too!

    I also set up my own Plex media server, then ripped all my DVDs and Blu-rays to my computer so I can watch them anytime, streaming from anywhere. I don’t have to worry about content disappearing because the only time something vanishes from my Plex server is when I manually remove it myself.

    Plex itself also has tons of free movies and TV shows streaming through it too. Mostly stuff that’s open license. So even if you don’t have your own media server set up, there’s still tons of stuff to watch without paying for a subscription.

  • MoonlightFox@lemmy.world
    2·
    12 hours ago

    There are a couple of streaming services in Europe. It seems that most of them are targeted at specific countries, but still.

    I have enjoyed a Norwegian one with mainly Norwegian content and BritBox, with a little bit of Hollywood stuff sprinkled on top.

  • Billybob22@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    15 hours ago

    Fully support your actions and reasoning.

    It’s a process.

    We have cancelled and deleted Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook.

    Just started move to alternatives and now have Ubuntu as well as Home Assistant.

  • LUC@lemm.ee
    3·
    15 hours ago

    i only have gmail, netflix and windows 10 to replace. gmail is easy but time consuming. on netflix is dragon ball daima 😭

    microshaft windowns 10 is the hardest for me. most of my games arent from steam.

    • IDew@lemm.ee
      4·
      15 hours ago

      I can suggest Ameliorated together with MASSgrave to set a step in a somewhat right direction. You have choice from optimized windows to a private version of windows that have all connected parts to Microsoft stripped out.

    • b1t@lemm.ee
      4·
      15 hours ago

      I’ve been using Proton Mail for a few months now and I love it. Setting up auto-forwarding + delete is pretty simple in Gmail too. Then I set my phone to sync my “empty” accounts so that Google doesn’t delete them.

        • b1t@lemm.ee
          2·
          9 hours ago

          All mail is automatically forwarded then deleted. So the inbox is left empty (except the backups I’m keeping for possible legal coverage.)