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

In comp.misc, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:

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.

Doesn't stop people from posting about you on FB. (Or worse, posting
photos of you on there.)

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.

Many, I suspect, started using Github before Microsoft bought them in
2018. Lately I've been seeing people advocating for a switch to
Codeberg. I started using it recently, but haven't moved my old projects
there, at least yet.

Elijah
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doesn't use public repositories for much anyway