About DitchTheMega

What this is

A free, practical guide to extracting yourself from Big Tech ecosystems. Not a boycott manifesto. Not a moral lecture. A technical and practical guide that assumes you've already decided to reduce your dependence and need to know how.

The positioning: You've decided to leave. Here's the map.

What this isn't

This site doesn't tell you why to leave Amazon. There are a hundred articles and a Netflix documentary for that. This site tells you how. Service by service. With real alternatives and honest assessments of what you gain and lose.

Principles

• No data collection. We don't track you. We don't have analytics. We don't use cookies.
• No paid recommendations. No company pays to be listed. Recommendations exist because they're good.
• Honest about tradeoffs. We have a page called What You Actually Lose. Amazon does some things well. We say so.
• Honest about tradeoffs. Corrections and improvements are welcome — see our principles.

On affiliate links

Some links on this site are affiliate links, marked with a small aff badge. If you click one and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Our policy: we only link to services we would recommend regardless of whether an affiliate program exists. The alternative was listed first; the affiliate link was added after. If a better option exists that doesn't have an affiliate program, we list it anyway — you can see this throughout the site.

Affiliate commissions keep this resource free and fund continued development. CancelFreely and DeleteFreely remain completely affiliate-free. DitchTheMega is different — it's a deeper guide that takes more to maintain, and affiliate revenue is how we sustain it honestly.

Part of a portfolio

DitchTheMega is part of a small set of data sovereignty tools:

• CancelFreely — cancel any subscription, step by step. No affiliate links.
• DeleteFreely — delete your data from major companies. No affiliate links.
• DitchTheMega — leave the most entrenched ecosystems. Affiliate links disclosed.

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