Thank you for the digital cleanse list! I've spent my evening reading through the archives of the Opt Out Project blog - what an enormous breath of fresh air in today's digital world! I especially like the emphasis on autonomy and tangible solutions to taking your life (and data) back from large tech companies. A lot of the strategies on the digital cleanse list were things I was doing already, but I'm now contemplating switching to Signal as an alternative to WhatsApp for at least some of my chats: I've found the new MetaAI features on the WhatsApp app extremely unpleasant and intrusive (I simply want to have conversations with my family and friends, not talk to a bot!). I managed to work around them for a while by changing the language of my app to Ukrainian, but now the AI's been introduced there too. I was feeling enormously frustrated at how little control I had over it (since Meta very obligingly doesn't give you a way to turn AI features off) - but now I feel like I have actual options to properly curate my experience. Very refreshing!
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