Switch to Linux from Windows or MacOS, use a degoogled Android ROM such as GrapheneOS, pay using cash when in person and using Monero when buying online using sites like shopinbit (based in Europe) & others listed on sites like monerica and kycnot.me or cash/Monero bought gift cards, to avoid using US payment processors, in general using privacy respecting open source software.

Everyone should do this, not just as a way of hurting the American economy, but as a way of regaining freedom over their own data and privacy, including Americans. Your data and privacy is being sold as a commodity to brokers/advertisers and governments, particularly the US govt. You should use this opportunity to take back control over your own privacy and freedoms.

Switched to Proton for e-mail, drive and calendar. Left Reddit for personal usage (I might still look into old reddit tech posts as an archive), deleted Facebook which hasn’t been used for years. Never had a Xitter account but created a Bluesky one to try it out.

And most and foremost, ditched a lot of US products from my daily life. I was quite a huge Coke Zero consumer and it was probably the most difficult to get rid of.

Left Reddit, Facebook and Xitter (the last two long ago), quit Disney+ and Netflix. Switched my email from gmail to proton. My work still uses Microsoft, I can’t change that. I’m not buying any US food or alcohol or physical US products.

Things to work on: the tax filing company I use is American, I need to change that. That’s a longer term project.

There’s a site called European alternatives which might be worth a look. I’m trying to be ethical with all of my spending, supporting companies which have good principles and look after their responsibilities towards their employees, the planet etc

Not travelling to the USA this year anymore, cancelled disney+ and prime. I’m now actively looking for what is Canadian made and I’m buying what doesn’t exist as Canadian made from Canadian retailers instead of US owned megacorps.