Your personal data and your attention (advertisements). Those two things are the cornerstone of how big tech makes their money
But how do you teach those skills directly
The chemist will pronounce it un-ionized, while the plumber will pronounce it union-ized
Little cardboard vampire
Relationship goals
RSS is awesome. My favorite fun fact is that podcasts are RSS-based, which is why you can listen to any of them from any podcast app.
Glasses. The ability to see so much better than I otherwise could leaves me astonished every time I put them on.
Try Brave Search, Duckduckgo, Startpage, or Searxng. For more detail on these recommendation (that I definitely did not just steal), check out the Privacy Guides page, or The New Oil for a different, albeit overlapping, set of recommendations and take on search engines.
ProtonVPN still offers it I believe
Unashamed. Took me a second
That doesn’t matter. It costs money for companies to place adds with Google. That money goes directly to them regardless of whether or not you make a purchase. They then make use of their vast data resources to target people with said ads, which may not affect you, but definitely pushes products (some business people have described a 3x on investment with Google and Facebook ads).
Because Google ads are on nearly every website, and because Google owns such a large bevy of services including search, YouTube, Gmail, and maps, they can collect all of this data into a scarily accurate profile of your behavior, interests, and beliefs. Data that is shared with their partners and ends up all over the internet.