Educational institutions are buying microsoft services as a trend and we need them to boycott also.
Getting bus pass in my university takes 5 business days so they can “save cost on students who don’t use it.”
Meanwhile everyone’s student gmail implicitly has a subscription to copilot, gemini, and openai at the same time; it doesn’t matter if you are using them or not.
Paid by our tuition no doubt.
if you really want to hurt them use a free account and keep on asking to make you innane pictures and stuff. I mean it will waste energy though but it will cost them money.
Any reference to Trump’s donors to back that Gepeto is the biggest one? I would like to see the top 10 or 100 list…
Unsubscribe from all the things.
Except my VPN. You don’t need to know where I live. And my IPTV.
Yeah, VPN’s are unfortunately essential. If I hadn’t made it a project to request deletion of my info off the top 30 background check sites, I’d be using something like DeleteMe too.
Unless you’re (not you PhoenixDog specifically, the general You referring to the reader) blocking your browser fingerprinting, using Ad blocker, DNS filtering from trusted sources, not using social media app, not installing apps that require Google Play Services and not using your credit card for digital payments then simply changing the IP address that the server sees doesn’t do very much.
VPNs can be part of a solution but if you are not doing all of the other things then they do not hide who you are because of the plethora of other avenues that you can be tied to an existing advertising identity.
but be careful of which VPN provider you’re using. Mulvad is a good option
Using Nord right now. Looking into that one though I may switch.
I don’t pay for AI. There is no real value in it at massive scale for it to be paid for me. Plus it is harmful. I can local host AI for small tasks like cleaning up some data.
Yep! I feel way, way safer when I use something running on my laptop as opposed to feeding things into the bottomless hole that is Microsoft or Anthropic.
All I want is something to double-check the verbiage of an email to make sure I’m not coming off like an asshole.
Also, why paying for AI? You can use it for free, and when you finish your free daily limit, you just switch to another AI: Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Le Chat, DeepSeek… rinse and repeat.
Quit? Only a fool would waste their time on it.
It blows my mind people actually subscribe to mostly wrong answers.
Great job
People pay for subscription to ask AI?
Corporate would still use it 😒
not just chatgpt.
Stop using Amazon, Meta products, Netflix, Spotify, etc.
All of these massive corporations are actively making life worse for people, and it will only get worse and worse as people continue to stay subscribed.
The only option is to log off and find an alternative.
Apparently, they just took somebody else’s idea and made it all about ChatGPT:
QuitGPT is in the mold of Galloway’s own recently launched campaign, Resist and Unsubscribe.
Resist and Unsubscribe encourages you to get away from Google and Amazon, as well as OpenAI. QuitGPT endorses both (Google directly, Amazon indirectly).
Resist and Unsubscribe is a holistic project; QuitGPT cuts out everything except for one product.
Resist and Unsubscribe doesn’t inadvertently promote a single product; QuitGPT practically functions as a sneaky advertising campaign (kind of like how Larry David said he wouldn’t invest in FTX).
It seems pretty clear which project is better, even if I don’t agree with everything the guy behind it said:
Galloway argued that the best way to stop ICE was to persuade people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions.
I don’t think voting with your dollars will make a huge difference when every ChatGPT subscription costs OpenAI money, but go off I guess
Google ?
Yep, should go without saying! I didn’t list every company but there are plenty more who belong there.
Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter, Nvidia, Nestle…
… in fact, forget buying altogether.
You will owe nothing and you’ll be happy.
I will own my self-hosted open-sourced software and data.
Fuck digital overlords.
I kinda wish I’d been using it so I could quit!
I just use Chinese AI atp. Deepseek and Kimi.
Glm also?
Grok/Mechahitler owner likely has donated more to GOP/Trump rule. Anthropic CEO wrote an essay that outlined dangers of AI recently, but also underlined how the pure good US must develop Skynet to oppress all of the bad evil opposition to the US empire.
The entire industry is lining up to get US government military/surveillance applications to use the absurd level of datacenters/energy that are being committed to, because “Skynet now or China wins” is even more aggressive consensus than “too big to fail”.
Yes agree, i have quit MSFT fully (switched to Ubuntu), Amazon prime is gone and no longer buying from them. Cancelled my Claude subscription, my gmail now auto forwards to my local server, switched my web hosting from AWS to Hetzner, Cancelled my netflix, back to library and jellyfin local server. Same with Spotify. No more Safeway or QFC - Costco is good enough and has the lowest prices locally, or occasionally Trader Joes. Its saving me a whole shit ton of money.
I’ve never used it. I play around with a local installation sometimes, that’s the extent of my experience with AI.
