I have reduced my digital advertising exposure to a minimum - very liberating 🤓:

- no more linear TV and no more commercials for years

- switched from Google Android to nostr:npub1235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ksdg0ht5 - no more mobile operating system tracking, no more Google data mining for ads in God mode

- switched from Google Chrome to Brave Browser (mobile/PC) / Vanadium => cookie tolerance and tracking in settings reduced as far as possible

- watch YouTube only via Brave Browser => blocks all advertising

- Accounts for all meta products deleted and apps removed (Whatsapp, FB, Insta)

- Checked all Android apps for trackers and permissions on https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

=> deleted many apps & open accounts in browser only, because almost all apps track in order ro sell data to multiple data brokers

- switched to privacy email services nostr:npub1s0lcehg2nx2ps6sl33pjy6vaxqmm600tkxladd20wk49j9w98keqfq33wr

and nostr:npub1mea2vwcu06qf7e4x00wd902vj54qnn2jacq76ldntrgfhtvhlpqqrvqane to avoid email tracking

- use hide-my-email aliases from nostr:npub1mea2vwcu06qf7e4x00wd902vj54qnn2jacq76ldntrgfhtvhlpqqrvqane for commercial burner log-ins

- Social media 90% Nostr / 10% X (twitter only in browser)

- only in-podcast and in-video advertising from content creators remain. Understand that they do it for monetization, but I always fast forward. Sorry, not sorry.

- I send V4V for pods that are V4V only

Our podcast nostr:npub1n0devk3h2l3rx6vmt24a3lz4hsxp7j8rn3x44jkx6daj7j8jzc0q2u02cy is Value 4 Value only. It works without advertising.

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That's how you do it! Fantastic setup you have, mine is only slightly different:

0% Twitter

Mullvad VPN

Have TOR browser ready if needed

If practical, use a different browser sometimes

Newpipe for YT on Android

Does your Newpipe also regularly refuse to playback videos since one of two months? It's really starting to be annoying... 🤬

I use Brave to play YT videos. It works as long as I don't open videos via links posted in other apps, e.g. from Telegram. Once I use a YT link forwarded from another app, it requires a YT log in and won't play the video. Solution: close brave session (delete session history if not done automatically), use new VPN location (change IP address) and search video in brave/YT directly. Maybe it's the same with Newpipe.

Thanks, will try changing VPN location

yeah, this sucks. Usually I wait for the next update and it's fixed. Seems Google is regularly changing something which breaks the newpipe playback

Surprisingly a smartphone reboot fixes the bug most of the time. 🤷‍♂️

One more advantage of using browser instead of apps: You get much less notifications, which means less distractions and more peace of mind.

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I love it

Feels different, right?

Once you are no longer the product.

Congrats. Bullish! I still have some way to go.

Very similar to my path. I've gotten so used to no advertisements and notifications that I can't stand them now and can't even watch regular TV or regular YT.

If you haven't gone down this road yet, start with Newpipe or Brave on YT. It's so peaceful 🧘‍♂️