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How to un-Big Tech your online life

David Pierce

created: Feb. 14, 2026, 1 p.m. | updated: Feb. 15, 2026, 12:48 p.m.

The DropGroup projectOver the years, lots of people have tried to chart an online life without Big Tech companies. So I asked you all to share your favorite non-Big Tech tech, and as always, you delivered. As for browsers, it was pretty much all FirefoxLinux Mint came up a bunch as a user-friendly way out of the Big Tech operating systems. Screen shareI am not the expert on ditching Big Tech in your life, though. Last year, Paris wrote a great guide to dropping US tech services with a bunch of really useful recommendations for where to go instead.

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