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"Bill" wrote

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| I haven't been protesting that Win10 is the only choice; in fact, I have
| Linux on my machine too. Part of the reason for my post was to help
| open the eyes of people to see what is going on in front of our eyes!
| The Internet is "ours", but there are several companies that are trying
| to divide up control of it like an (Apple) pie. : ) As you point out,
| most people are quite willing to just let it happen, slowly, ...
| The OS installing software that I can't even stop with the task manager,
| is just one iota of that process, but I believe that it's part of the
| process nonetheless. MS wants me to use OneDrive...How often do I need
| to say NO??? I paid them for the OS, so IMO, they shouldn't irritate
| me. I'm watching the case against the Apple store with
| interest--thought these may be a distantly related issues.

I'm with you on all of that. But people are using it.
You said you switched from Win7, and you apparently
haven't switched back. That's what I'm talking about.
You're leaving the choice in Microsoft's hands, hoping
they'll "do the right thing". They won't. Linux people
often hold that up as a solution, but it's not a solution.
And in 20-odd years of commercial Linux OSs, the people
in charge are no closer to making a usable product. Most
of them don't want a product that the masses can
understand. They want to diddle their console windows.
So where's Linux today? In locked down, spyware, service
kiosks like Android.

I worry more
after having read that Kamala Harris is cozy with Silicon
Valley. Who will take a stand? Who even understands?
Wyden and Markey are the only senators I'm aware of
who even seem to grasp how this all works.

OneDrive and similar are another good example, as you
point out. I live
with a woman who supervises early childhood teacher
candidates in their classroom placements. It used to be
none of them understood anything but a docx. Now they
only understand Google Docs. They're being taught at
school, probably forced to buy software. And these are
college students. The "intelligentsia".

It's like an
infection. If they send you a Google Docs link then you
have a choice to either cooperate with GD or tell the
sender that they must send you a real file in a readable
format -- a directive they probably won't understand.

And now it's also happening with movies. A half dozen
streaming companies have exclusives on specific movies
and now you have to let them spy on you to see the movies,
as well as paying separate fees to each. Ironically, I just
read that a new documentary looking into the problems
of social media is available only on Netflix.

https://www.wired.com/story/social-d...x-documentary/

I'm guessing the people who made the movie don't even
notice the irony.