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From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy
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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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