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Save democracy - Switch away from Big Tech products at rebeltechalliance.org (where I'm a co-founder) 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@patrickleavy, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h
No surprise. Mirrors the idiocy of the "data breach-as-a-service" design underlying the entire programmatic ads business - the RTB system: www.rebeltechalliance.org/rtbsystem…
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
The #AttentionStrike is now going to be all on one day: 📅 Friday 27th November 👈🏼👈🏼👈🏼👈🏼👈🏼 ...the same as Buy Nothing Day! www.rebeltechalliance.org/collectiv… <- more info Remove your attention from #BigTech platforms and therefore […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
ATTENTION STRIKE - 27th Nov 2026
Your attention is free labour to Big Tech. Take a day off from the services that have built abusive monopolies from
your attention. One strike on a collection of Big Tech platforms, and on the same day as Buy Nothing Day! More info
about these strikes is at Take Back Big Tech's website.
When: Friday 27th November 2026
Big Tech platforms to boycott during the strike:
X (Twitter) YouTube (Google)
X is a CSAM-enabling cesspit run by a Google invented surveillance capitalism, and
trillionaire sociopath are now a dangerous monopoly
LinkedIn (Microsoft) ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and
Muse
Microslop, and their rapacious data harvesting
via LinkedIn for its ad revenue, can do one Big Tech is developing Al the wrong way: as
data-harvesting monopolies
Facebook and Instagram (Meta) Amazon
Meta's products are proven to harm and even Amazon have destroyed the free market with
kill children, and adults their monopoly power
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Join the upcoming #AttentionStrikes !! Withdraw your attention from #BigTech extractive exploitative platforms ✊🏼 STRIKE DATES: 23 0CT — X 30 OCT — Youtube 6 NOV — LinkedIn 13 NOV — ChatGPT 20 NOV — Facebook + Instagram 27 NOV — Amazon And get the added […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Attention Strikes!
They monetise our attention. So, we're  taking itaway.
- On set days, large numbers of us will op away from one Big Tech platform at once.
STRIKE DATES:
23 0CT — X 
30 OCT — Youtube
6 NOV — LinkedIn 
13 NOV — ChatGPT
20 NOV — Facebook + Instagram
27 NOV — Amazon
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
When you mention data #privacy do people every reply "Well they've already got all my data!"? Here's how to debunk that: www.rebeltechalliance.org/gotmydata…
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Rebel Tech Alliance
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Believe it - this dude tests this stuff forensically.
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
sign this petition from ORG saying we don't want to be ID'd to go online! action.openrightsgroup.org/no-id-on… Nice one @openrightsgroup 🤘🏼
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
📢 Just dropped: our 'Monthly Mosh Pit' newsletter! A monthly round up of the horrors of #BigTech - there are so many per month that it's hard to cram them all in 😬 Truly they are the most revolting corporations on the planet... so focus your anger once a month in the mosh pit 🤘🏼 […]
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Will you take part in the upcoming Attention Strikes? Starting 23rd October with X I know I'm preaching to the converted here on Mastodon, but you could still forward on this link and tell your X-addicted friends about it! takebackbigtech.com/attention-strike Our friends at Take Back […]
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Indeed. It's nuts.
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Please sign this petition to keep #Android open. #Google are making yet another dick move - trying to choke out small #developers. You know, the ones that make tech that doesn't indulge in datarape... c.org/KNqTMGncmx
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Sign the Petition
Keep Android Open (Stop Google from limiting APK file usage)
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@_elena my son's school is asking for permission to put photographs of him on social media and I've refused. It got me thinking about how suitable Mastodon would be for #schools. Do you know of any examples? Spoken to anyone who's looked into this?
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
RE: mastodon.online/@iode/1173727430202… Good point! I'm glad I'm now using a iodéOS phone 😁 Added bonus: two weeks in, that creepy feeling that I'm being watched is slowly subsiding.
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
@axeln @Tutanota yes, this is why I chose Tuta over Proton.
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117364143… Good to see app creators ditching the "ecosystem mindset" 😁 Good news for #interoperability - well done Tuta!
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117361302… 🥳
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
RE: eupolicy.social/@johnnyryan/1173591… 🤦‍♂️ ffs you couldn't make it up 😔
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
RE: eupolicy.social/@johnnyryan/1173529… Ffs. Very revealing...
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
RE: mastodon.online/@iode/1173489459738… I've just started using iodéOS and what they're saying is true - they block all that crap. And Google aren't even in the phone to begin with so it's a win-win!
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
RE: eupolicy.social/@johnnyryan/1173481… OMG great news! And congratulations @johnnyryan this has been a long time coming. You must have endless patience 😵‍💫
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrig… Wtf. Is the UK moving towards US style oppression?
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
A bit of Friday fun with our anti- #bigtech #game Boulder Bros www.rebeltechalliance.org/boulder-b… Score over 300 or the "Dark money bros" get away! Works really well in mobile too.
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Boulder Bros
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173253569… Surprised. Not surprised. Meta = #surveillance after all. But holy fuck, the fact that this guy could so easily extract everything from Meta's new #AI product. Not only are #Meta callous and unethical, they're lazy and feckless too 😳
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@vicfroh/1167453793… This series of posters was amazing
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-a… A useful perspective on the #HuggingFace #AI hack, from @pluralistic
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Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition
The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics… "AI can make mistakes. Double check important data" 😳
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@_elena/11730419300… Proud to be a fellow rebel with you! We are www.rebeltechalliance.org
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117297698… This MUST be defeated
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@_elena/11729095764… Great anti #bigtech tune!
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
RE: stranger.social/@lednaBM/1172754287… Lol totally...
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
@tobybryans yes, that's a good essay! I like the framing of "ok, that's enough, thank you". We said something similar but with more of a UK bent in this article: blog.rebeltechalliance.org/back-doo… It's more of a timeline from 9/11 to 2026 to show the slide into a […]
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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@Bron1954/117273754… I wonder whether historians will look back when all the corporations have been terminated and call the period we're living through the Corporate Age ?
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
This is an important study for any #parents to see: #TikTok doesn't give a shit about child account guardrail settings peoplevsbig.tech/tiktoks-parental-c… They immediately show them #eatingdisorder and […]
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
And another #Google #spyware device bites the dust: I've flashed a Pixel 8a with IodéOS 🥳 Thank you, @iode your OS is really great. My son already uses it - the advanced DNS blocker is amazing! A daily time limit control would be the icing on the cake 😊 This is such a positive boost to mental […]
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Another one bites the dust.... Another #Microsoft Surface gets flashed with #LinuxMint 🥳 It's an old one (pro-4) and was really sluggish with Windows. It's nice and fast with #Linux now!
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
RE: social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrig… I'll try and get along to this. Important topic - we wrote about it here: blog.rebeltechalliance.org/back-doo…
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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not welcome in Ireland #USpol youtube.com/watch?v=zyAE...
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🚨Ireland Citizens Just Gave Trump THE WORST SURPRISE, He's DONE!
YouTube video by Occupy Democrats
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117263361… Good news!
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Mother Horrified When Meta's AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters futurism.com/artificial-intelligenc… This is gross. Please boycott #Meta
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Mother Horrified When Meta’s AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters
"It just kept going and going, and that pit in my stomach just kept getting bigger and deeper." The post Mother Horrified When Meta’s AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters appeared first on Futurism.
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
www.mullvad.net/en/blog/2026/9/10/a… @iode and @murena will you work on a patch for this? Given that Google aren't going to, this would really be a good look for your services!
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Another way to leak traffic on Android has been discovered
A newly discovered leak in Android allows any app to send traffic outside the VPN tunnel.
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
vivaldi.com/android/new Good news - #Vivaldi now supports extensions on Android! I've immediately installed Ublock Origin and Privacy Badger 😁
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What's New in Vivaldi
What’s New in Vivaldi
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
How to add a custom search engine to your browser: In the Search Engines section of your browser's settings, find the area to 'Add custom search', and paste in the search engine's URL with: /search?q=%s on the end. So for Uruky it's uruky.com/search?q=%s or for Mojeek it's […]
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
#Events we're speaking at: www.rebeltechalliance.org/events.ht… One this saturday, one next month
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Not in the mood for serious tech changes? Have a look at our 'Other Alts' page and try out something less taxing! www.rebeltechalliance.org/otheralts… (My personal favourite: LocalSend)
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Rebel Tech Alliance www.rebeltechalliance.org are presenting a workshop at the Love & Rage event this Saturday 11.30am in London. Free tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/extinct… Brendan and I will show you how to escape #BigTech addiction […]
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Please, please, please if you're a parent - have a look through our Parent's Guide page: www.rebeltechalliance.org/parents.h… Its organised by age group and the content in the Learn Together section could save their life. Please watch those videos/films and read those books together […]
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Rebel Tech Alliance are presenting a workshop at the Love & Rage event this Saturday in London. We're on at 11.30am. Get free tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/extinct… We'll be showing the extent of everyday data harvesting and then doing an […]
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117223765… We are going to be hosting #DIDay events with @openrightsgroup soon 😁
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
I'm celebrating - after much planning I finally got around to buying my next phone - and have successfully flashed it with @iode OS! Goodbye google! 🥳 Hardware and OS alternatives will be part of next year's #BigTechWalkout but you can get up to speed by swapping out everything else in our free […]
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Rebel Tech Alliance (which I co-founded with @brenetic) provides a free online course to get you off #bigtech products so you can stop feeding the beast: cademy.io/rebel-tech-alliance/cours…
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Rebel Tech Alliance
Enrol in our world famous Big Tech Walkout courses! They're free, and they'll enable to you break free from big tech's surveillance and control. About Us Rebel Tech Alliance is a non-profit whose main objective is to stop Big Tech spying on us and monetising our personal data. We do this by undermining the creepy targeted ads business model they use: Surveillance Capitalism (aka the Surveillance Economy, or the Attention Economy). And we do that by helping you switch to using different tech that doesn't support that data-hungry business model. You can achieve this with our Big Tech Walkout programme. Why switch? Because Big Tech have become too rich to have to change. Too big to jail. There is a dark side to their addictive recommendation algorithms and the surveillance economy that you many not have realised: at scale they lay the foundations for a surveillance state and threaten democracy itself. And now AI is making all that much worse...
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Patrick Leavy @patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
You car is spying on you youtu.be/RdkSBTowMd4 It's worse if you're in the US, but pretty bad everywhere... This video has remedies too. #surveillance #cars #automotive
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