If you're really into avoiding these, at least on a laptop you can: 1) Use a blob-free OS like Trisquel. Heh, your webcam may not have drivers in Trisquel. Or

If you're really into avoiding these, at least on a laptop you can: 1) Use a blob-free OS like Trisquel. Heh, your webcam may not have drivers in Trisquel. Or tape over it. 2) Trisquel also. 3) Trisquel also. Another good alternative is TAILS. 4) Use IceWeasel (Firefox source code) and the RequestPolicy extension. 5) Use DuckDuckGo or another anonymizing proxy. I agree with you though, that we must think bigger than buying TVs so we can smash them.