There's many videos warning about how electronic devices can track and/or spy on its owners, but these intrusions can be greatly mitigated, even in today's surveillance centric world. Nowadays everything has some form of surveillance tech in it. So this is a how–to guide to help users avoid it as much as is possible.

The obvious best way is to simply live without any of it, just like this Tech (born in 58) did for the first half of my life; I happily lived with nothing that had surveillance capabilities! I didn't get my first smartphone until Oct. of 2016 (an Honor 5X).

Nowadays I'm all Safe Tech with an e/OS phone, and Linux only on virgin hardware (sample system). I drove cars from 74 to 05, before volitionally going Car Free; all the cars I did own were made before 1997 (so tech free). Nowadays cars are easily tracked.

Smart TV's spy on you 🎥! Therefore, always search and buy HDTV's without spying capabilities. Sceptre has been my favorite for 3 decades now; I bought my first Monitor (in the 90's) from LA based Sceptre via a local retailer while living in Metro LA. Click to enlarge this screenshot of a Sceptre 4K sold at Walmart (shipped free); no ethernet or wireless. Just connect a NUC or Mini PC with a 4K HDMI cable, and an HDTV Antenna to its ATSC cable port.

Bill Gates Loses It as Windows 11 Users Threaten to Abandon Microsoft 🎥! That's because more people figured out their five–decade–long spying, plus their monetized ecosystem isolation. But breaching those Gates was not just individual users turning to Linux, it was more by Enterprise users (business; education) tired of Microsoft's endless demand for glitchy software updates and expensive hardware upgrades (e.g. the TPM debacle). Some turned to Google and Chrome, however, that's just another Big Tech ecosystem. Move beyond MS and Google enterprise with open source and cloud-native alternatives.