I guess some of us are forced to use tools and services from companies we don't like, for the sake of our livelihoods? "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." We all gotta draw the line somewhere, you know, and everyone has a price...?
Google is a mixed bag; they used to be a force for real good on the internet, now they're mostly mediocre with a side of evil, riding on their past benevolence. I use their tools here and there, even if I think the internet is overdue for some serious de-googlization.
Facebook is just plain evil. I don't use their stuff in my personal life, but many businesses demand that you set up Facebook ads/analytics for them. I use fake accounts for those.
Amazon is pretty evil too, maybe AWS somewhat less so. I avoid them whenever possible (freelancing, etc., where I get to choose the stack) but oftentimes AWS is baked in to existing stacks and the companies are not interested in switching to anything else.
It doesn't require massive cultural differences, necessarily, but just a degree of moral compromise that most adults have to make in order to survive. Capitalism doesn't easily make for benevolent corporations and moral purity in tech is impossible when like 90% of it is owned by a dozen huge companies.
Google is a mixed bag; they used to be a force for real good on the internet, now they're mostly mediocre with a side of evil, riding on their past benevolence. I use their tools here and there, even if I think the internet is overdue for some serious de-googlization.
Facebook is just plain evil. I don't use their stuff in my personal life, but many businesses demand that you set up Facebook ads/analytics for them. I use fake accounts for those.
Amazon is pretty evil too, maybe AWS somewhat less so. I avoid them whenever possible (freelancing, etc., where I get to choose the stack) but oftentimes AWS is baked in to existing stacks and the companies are not interested in switching to anything else.
It doesn't require massive cultural differences, necessarily, but just a degree of moral compromise that most adults have to make in order to survive. Capitalism doesn't easily make for benevolent corporations and moral purity in tech is impossible when like 90% of it is owned by a dozen huge companies.