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Jirel

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1. Boycotting AI is not hard.
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 09:59 AM
Yesterday

Vote with your wallet.

- Use noai.DuckDuckGo.com as your search tool.
- Buy nothing “smart” or AI driven.
- For tech that incorporates AI in software or hardware (like phones or tablets), buy used only.
- Don’t subscribe to software (many now use AI in development, and hope to recoup the expense through subscriptions).
- Turn off all AI features in your tech.
- Where possible, pollute data and AI. This can be as simple as refusing personal data to stores, giving false data, keeping a spare email account just for purchases online, etc. More advanced options include locking down your digital life with tracking and ad blockers, using AI polluting tools on work product, etc.

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