Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025, Dave Yeo wrote:

It's got pretty hard to avoid some of these businesses. Google, Facebook,
Microsoft are examples of companies that are very hard to avoid.

 
? Facebook is super easy to avoid. Just don't use it. They make nothing of
value.

Indeed, so long as you block all FB's scripts and images on
otherwise unrelated websites. Although I don't tend to make close
friends so I don't need to worry about controlling their FB usage.

If you have a job at a global mega-corp I agree, M$ and Google are
difficult to avoid. =(
 
In private you can do just fine to avoid them as well.

No, Google can track you via their Captchas, which I guess even
many NoScript users allow by default because the three page reloads
to let them through when a website requires it is a real pain in
the neck.

Quite mysteriously, all sorts of otherwise respectable open-source
software developers are happy to use GitHub even though it's owned
by M$. So even having ditched their software long ago, M$ are now
very hard to avoid online if, ironically, you want to use, and
especially work on, open-source software. I find that truely
unfathomable, but others barely seem to see my problem with it.

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