From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   D  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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