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First-person adventure time: I’ve been cutting the tech giants out of my life one by one. gizmodo.com/life-without-t…
Because I’m a masochist, I started with the company I thought would be the most painful: Amazon. It was more than a boycott, @dmehro built me a custom VPN to block all things Amazon, including all sites hosted on AWS. gizmodo.com/i-tried-to-blo… 
And if you’re not into ~words~ @myraiqbal has been capturing my struggles (and those of my poor toddler) on video.
@myraiqbal It’s kind of worthwhile to have someone filming you for long periods of time computing. Seeing the expressions I make while looking at my computer—basically countless variations of a grimace— makes me want to compute a lot less.
In the second week of my tech giant blockade, I cut Facebook out of my life. I thought it would be a relief because it’s f***ing Facebook, but I really missed it. gizmodo.com/i-cut-facebook…
It was easy technically to block Facebook because it doesn’t run the web like Amazon’s AWS, but FB's trackers are everywhere, including 'Pixel,' which tracks products you look at so companies can show you ads for those products on FB/Instagram. gizmodo.com/i-cut-facebook…
I've blocked Amazon. I've blocked Facebook. Now, it's Google's turn. Cutting Google from my life changed everything: gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-o…
The adventure/nightmare of abandoning the tech giants continues. This episode is about blocking Microsoft, which was deceptively easy, and provided an occasion to dig into some good 90s tech history: gizmodo.com/i-cut-microsof…
