The sentiment around buying European/Canadian alternatives to American products and services is a great one, and I can get behind the movement, but there is more to it.
Not all products and services have alternatives that are viable. You can’t get your workplaces to move to libreoffice or get your mom to start using signal messege. Moreover, even when using Europa products and services you still perpetuate the culture of uncontrolled capitalism and enriching tech billionaires. Open Source Alternatives, Piracy, and Ad Blocking are all equally viable.
Keeping this in mind, remember that piracy and ad blocking are great ways to keep using American services without contributing to their bottom line.
There are ad free versions of YouTube, reddit, Instagram and Facebook apps. They’re all patched with revanced and are available on github.
Additionally, pirate media as much as you can and be unapologetic about it. Facebook is doing it, so can you. Pirate music, movies, books they’re all available. Torrents community has never been safer and better organised.
Consume without paying and that does more damage to their bottomlines.
I think enshittification is mostly attributable to America. Ads on everything every possible moment, subscriptions for everything, privacy nightmares around every corner… All to scrape the very last penny from ‘regular folks’ while American artists, producers and study execs have so much money, they have no clue what to do with it which alienates them more and more from the people they seek to entertain.
I feel absolutely no remorse for downloading stuff and never pay for it. I can use hundreds of euros a month to far more productive ends and they sure as hell won’t miss my contributions.
Somehow they’ve gotten us so addicted to media, we just consume consume consume. It’s time to vote with our wallets and let those bastards choose which one of their seven California beach houses they are going to starve in.