“””These Five Men Will Now Control Much of Your Freedom (Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Bezos, Cook, Sundar)”””
I must be unique as none of these dudes will affect me.
Zuckerberg—I have never signed on to Facebook and have no intentions of doing so
Dorsey—I have never signed on to Twitter and have no intentions of doing so
Bezos—I have occasionally bought stuff from Amazon, but will curtail any future purchases
Cook—I have never bought an Apple product and have no intentions of doing so.
Sundar—I quit using google several years ago. Unless Duckduckgo is a google product in disguise, I can live without google.
So my basic question is this: “Why are people so connected to these companies?”
Is it laziness on their part?
I find that Free Republic gives me all the information I need about what is going on in the world. And there are all sorts of other companies providing products I want to buy.
Well, I’ve avoided all these like the plague. Never have used any of them..... well, I have needed directions a few times when travelling and turned on Google maps but that’s it (should have had the capabilities to do a different map). I remember doing a couple of checks as to how google search compared to Ixquick and they were both the same. Don’t use gmail…. every time I think that something is out there that means I’ve got to use one of these companies, I figure out another way.
Here’s what I want to know.... what costs these companies money? What hurts them other than people like me refusing to use their services?