Nope

Inspired by Jack Baty's list, this is a page of things I won't do. These are generally moral decisions and probably related to technology more than not. There will of course be way more "nope"'s than I will include on here, but I'll try and come back and note any ones I deem worthy of highlighting.

I've also added a /yep page, which as you can probably guess is essentially the opposite of this one.

In no particular order:

Will I...

...accept tracking cookies? Nope, in fact I'll go out of my way to untick and decline and opt out of all of them
...provide my date of birth? Nope, I'll probably put 1970-01-01
...give my real name to a website? Nope, unless legally required.
...allow your marketing dept to contact me for any reason whatsoever? Nope, I default-deny anything I haven't asked for out of principle
...connect with your professional account on social media? Nope, I don't even use social media
...grant your app access to my contacts/storage/etc? Nope, I probably won't even install it
...leave bluetooth and location on? Nope, for privacy and battery life. My battery is old! It can't handle all these CPU cycles!
...pay to remove ads? Nope, I'll go through a lot of trouble and strife just to block them
...Link my Google account? Nope, whether for SSO/auth or other reasons, if I can register a separate account not attached to any other, I will
...buy your software? Nope, I'll avoid it and use an open source alternative if possible (unless it's a video game...)
...plug that IoT device into the network? Nope, it getting harder to do this as required household stuff gets "smart" (boilers, freezers, electricity meters, etc) but I'll suffer a perceived inconvinience in exchange for my data to not be sent everywhere if I can
...buy that smart speaker? Nope, I hate that my TV remote has a mic in it. Even though I've disabled everything on the TV I'm convinced it still listens... *removes tinfoil*
...give time, attention and brain space to clickbait, negative and fearmongering news sources? Nope - you may say that this is irresponsible, that ignorance is no solution. And I agree. Something needs to change. But I don't know what or how to do that, and I don't have the capacity. Ignorance is bliss.