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The ARM company is also owned by Softbank which launders blood money from Saudi royalty/oligarchs: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/i-wouldnt-take-that-money-saudi-arabias-dirty-investments-could-be-trouble-for-softbank
About the only thing we can really do about Microsoft is to stop using Windows/Office/Azure, stop buying computers that are preloaded with Windows/Office, stop buying and playing Xbox, etc
Stop directly giving money to any company that we cannot trust
If we don’t do these things, then Microsoft will continue to have the power to do things, and we’ll only have ourselves to blame
Okay, I could be wrong about this, but …
My understanding is that from e.g. Facebook’s perspective, they previously would be able to see that you visited a newspaper website, and then a food delivery website, and then a furniture review website (assuming all of these websites had Facebook like/share/login buttons somewhere, and even if you never click these Facebook buttons)
But, with Total Cookie Protection, from Facebook’s perspective, they know someone visited the newspaper website, and they know someone (maybe someone else) visited the food delivery website, and they know someone (maybe yet another person) visited the furniture review website: they can’t connect the dots
However, the above example assumes that you aren’t logged in to Facebook
I’m actually not sure how this would be different if you were logged in to Facebook
Or, what if you actually did want to use the Facebook login on all of these websites? I suppose from Facebook’s perspective you have 3x different computers? And in terms of user experience, you have to log in to Facebook 3x times?
Are we talking about liberals or libertarians?
According to wikipedia, these are not the same thing:
The mature answer is “it depends”
Absolutes are rarely 100% true, and it entirely depends on your perspective, your use cases, and your expectations
Neither DuckDuckGo nor CloudFlare (the other favourite punching bag around here) have surveillance capitalism business models, but they do require you to trust someone else’s software running on someone else’s computers, and you still need to communicate with them over someone else’s networks
From my own perspective, which suits me fine but might not suitable for you, I prefer to avoid surveillance capitalism companies like Facebook/Meta, Amazon, Google
I’m also not a free-speech maximalist: I want to live in a world where information flows freely, but I acknowledge that not every single idea deserves exactly the same amplification
The same people screeching about DuckDuckGo and CloudFlare regarding censorship are often exactly the same people claiming that LGBTQIA and Black history education is not “age appropriate”, so even free-speech maximalists are rarely consistent
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