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How Eurostack could offer Canada a route to digital independence from the United States
(theconversation.com)
I am a firm believer in not getting advertised to and making my data as worthless as possible to the ad market. I started using a pihole setup in my home network so that I could block most advertisements and trackers. When apple started offering hide my email I started taking advantage of that. I live in Saskatchewan so we do not have all the rights that a data broker remover can take advantage of but I paid for a year of that. To say I never got spammed again would be a lie but I live without a junk mail filter so that things do not get stuck in there when they are not supposed to, but that is besides the point, after doing the things I did I would get maybe one or two spam emails a week.
After the boycott the US movement started I did some actual shopping around for somewhere to host my blog, just somewhere I can scream into the abyss with, instead of falling victim to marketing. I found hosthero.ca and with the package I got I have unlimited email addresses, it was going to be less expensive for me to split all my services apart and keep them in Canada than it was going to be to have them altogether, sure it is not as easy for somethings but it is not hard for me to work around it. 1Password, replaced apple’s password manager and sync.com replaced all the other things minus the iCloud Drive I have because Apple does not let you back up anywhere else for now.
I really got into separating my email stuff about a week ago. While I was doing that I found out that my ISP had moved to an exchange server for email so I thought about it and started moving everything off of there. As of today most things have their own email address, I have 140 some different email addresses that all forward to 5 or 6 different email addresses for me to check in my mail app on my iPad or iPhone, some of the addresses that forward to those emails can send emails from my devices as well.