Just reading this requires so many operations, and from several parts of the world, all working in tandem, that I wouldn’t know where to begin. To have the bits of data translated from a server sitting somewhere in the world into text you can read somewhere else in the world, and even translate it into over 100 languages, is a remarkable feat of ingenuity that has changed the way civilization functions. But it comes with a cost.

Packets of data that collect specific information (cookies) and relay it back to websites, businesses, corporations, and even governments are inserted on your devices. These are mostly necessary, so the internet can function as it does. But they can also be used to track your movements beyond the webpage you’re visiting, capture and send data to any number of third parties, and even sell that information.

Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) keeps track of every site you visit, how long you stayed there, your downloads, and basically, all your online activity. This information is shared with third parties, and even sold.

Google, through your mobile device, tracks your movements on as well as offline. Unless you have geolocation turned off, Google knows where you are, where you’ve been, how long you were there for, who was with you (if they had geolocation turned on), if you bought anything while you were there, for how much, with a card, digital wallet, or another payment method, and all this information is stored, shared with third parties, and even sold.

Your TV spies on you. If you have a SMART refrigerator, or SMART anything, it spies on you and sends data back to the manufacturer.

By using various applications, your biometrics (fingerprint, face, and eye scan) are sitting in data centres, and are available to financial institutions, police, intelligence organizations, and governments.

Now, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) thrown into the mix, Large Language Models (LLM’s) scan the internet and collect even larger and more defined metrics, stored in massive the data centres of private corporations, that all have contracts with governments, intelligence, and military.

Of course, all this is done to keep you safe. The theory being that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about. But in reality, it’s saying that you’re potentially guilty of something, until proven otherwise. And the way to do that is to give up your privacy–all of it!

By default, the internet has privacy turned off. Which means that if you want to regain your privacy, you have to switch things back on, put up deflectors (VPN and private DNS), turn off tracking options, and use alternative, privacy-conscious browsers, emails, cloud storage, and seriously consider decentralized, anonymous, financial options (Monero, as far as I understand, being the most decentralized presently available) or at the very least, partially decentralized (Stablecoin).

At Fedup Sheep, we can’t do anything about any of the above. But when interacting with us:

• We do not have access to your payment/financial details.
• We do not share, sell, swap, publish or make available in any way whatsoever your email (or name/alias, should you provide one), and we will never use it to spam you or send anything you have not signed up for.
• We have email tracking options/analytics turned off.
• We do not use cookies.
• We do not use advertising.
• We use encrypted storage for all our files/downloads.

The mechanics

It took nearly three years of research and trial and error to set up Fedup Sheep as it is today, with privacy (mine and yours) always at the forefront. Also, I live in Argentina, which leaves us with restrictions from the outside world, and this played a major role in the difficulty in finding particularly, but not only, payment providers.

In the table below are the applications used to run Fedup Sheep, both online and offline:

Online:

WebHostMost	Web Hosting	webhostmost.com
Proton	Encrypted Email, Storage, AI assistant.	proton.me
Fourthwall	Checkout Application	fourthwall.com
MoonPay Ecommerce	Stablcoin Payments	moonpay.com/business
Sender	Newsletter	sender.net

Other:

Language Tool	Writing Assistant	languagetool.org
Brave	Browser and multi crypto/stablecoin wallet	brave.com

Offline:

Linux (Debian based)	Operating System	peppermintos.com
LibreOffice	Desktop Publisher	libreoffice.org
Gimp	Design	gimp.org

WebHostMost fits in line with our stance on privacy, security, and performance. In 2025, they bought their own servers, and are independent of Google restricting and blocking websites.

All our PDFs are stored on Proton Drive. They’re encrypted, there’s no tracking (except for the number of times a document in downloaded), so I have no idea who downloads what, or from where.

Cloud storage services (e.g. Google Drive), scan data for LLM training, share data with third parties, who may even sell it. In other words, your “private” files are not private at all. Which means that my work, if you leave it sitting in these drives, gets used for AI training.

If you’re up for a free, encrypted option then get Proton Drive using just your email, here, and start taking back your privacy. Simply store the PDF directly to your Proton Drive, and it remains encrypted.

Fourthwall is a creator platform. We use it as our payment processor, and we accept credit & debit card, PayPal, Google Pay, Apple Pay, AliPay.

We use Sender to send our newsletters. Other than their analytics and tracking that’s needed for the operation to function, we do not use any analytics or tracking of our own. We do not run A/B testing. We do not segment our emails according to geolocation. We do not run holiday specials, or any other specials, as our prices are already set especially low. We do not use flashing reminders in case you forget, countdowns, or any other emotional and psychological triggers you may be accustomed to.

What you get is a newsletter, with the option to purchase something on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Should you require further information, please visit the respective sites (listed above) and read their privacy policies.

And finally

This Privacy Policy is active from the date of publication (July 2026). By joining the Fedup Family, you accept, even though not necessarily agreeing to, all of the above. We’re constantly looking to improve on privacy and decentralization, and Fedup Sheep reserves the right to modify anything in this Policy, where Family members (subscribers) will be notified via the newsletter. Should you disagree with anything, you can unsubscribe, and you’ll never hear from us again.

Thanks for reading this.

Fedup sheep