PewDiePie Drops Google Like A Bad Habit

Break out the tin foil hats boys, because PewDiePie is unplugging from the Google mother ship.

He's heading offline. He bought himself and Marzia and the various PewKiddos a cabin far away in the woods, off the grid where he plans on growing his own veggies, raising a couple of chickens and start enjoying the good life.

Why the big change? Well, for those who like to keep track of such things...

PewDiePie Is No Longer In The Top 10

WHAT?! When? How did this happen? Well, while Felix was living his life and doing Felix things as Felix likes to do, like learning how to draw over the last year or so, we were all co-opted and distracted into subscribing to other channels like MrBeast's flashy content and other stuff (hey, now he's up to 409 million subs and marching ever closer to a billion).

So PewDiePie has dropped out of the Top 10 Most Subscribed list. What's Felix's reaction? To decouple himself from Google and try to live a less scrutinized lifestyle without "big tech" watching his every move like they're using Sauron's flaming eyeball.

Anyway, let's let the man talk.

Okay, so there's no cabin in the woods. Its more or less about Internet Security with less being tracked by Facebook, Google and all those other companies hungrily demanding to know your every thought, move, financial transaction, or bowel movement.

He is just trying to get out from under the baleful gaze of the Internet, almost like having NordVPN for your real life beyond just your online life and it all starts with your smart phone which he wants to dumb down a smidge.

No one wants your phone snooping into all of your own activities and the gazillion apps on your phone facilitate the tracking that goes on, nonstop, 24-7. Interesting idea about segregating apps to prevent their snoopage from going on and changing your operating system.

Also, I've always liked DuckDuckGo although I haven't used it much recently. I do see that browser is one of those that people use to find Bradshaw's Blog and its been around forever. Hey, maybe Felix is reading my posts through DDG? Extremely doubtful, but Hi Felix if you're passing through. I know. Not happening.

Here's a recent video from CoolTechZone rating various browsers if you are curious about making a switch. Not subbed to them and they've only been uploading to YouTube a couple of years and have only 16K subs, but it might be worth a peek if you're interested in a new browser that supports things like adblockers and the like.

He also talks about Linux and there are more than enough videos outlining what the Linux operating system is and how to use it so I'll post this recent one with millions of views from Fireship (who also have millions of views) called "100+ Linux Things you Need to Know" if you're interested in traveling down that path.

But getting back to PewDiePie because he mentioned his recent Linux video called "I installed Linux (so should you)" from last April where talks more about the joys of open source.

Just as a sidenote, I liked Felix expressing a distaste for all things AI and paying subscriptions to "our future AI overlords. Good to see we're on the same page.

As far as using his steam deck "abomination" to help with his de-Google-fication, that's fine too. Like he said, there's some from the uber-techy nerd crowd with monster systems but there are cheaper alternatives if you put in a little research for some Internet Security peace of mind.

Bottom line is PewDiePie's not running off into the woods after all. He's just pushing away from the Internet a bit. Its all good.