And furthermore - the companies in question are true megacorps, ie evey bit of additional power/money they get (and for the matter of this pov: you give them) goes to absolutely the shorties practices and abuses ever.

It’s a moral thing - I protect my data for the same reason I recycle or consider my (indirect*) carbon footprint.

(*indirect bcs more like which companies or people I support)

With your data you support misinformation, deregulation lobbying, (any) government shitty things, ad culture, anything to protect the stock market as-is or their stock falls, dogshit approach to keeping their respective monology over their market, … and their size and reach allows them to just be bigger than a lot of things like municipalities, even smol countries, the quid-pro-quo aint in the peoples favor.

I simplified example (bcs someone else already made it happen) - imagine, if Google autonomous cars go on sale, suddenly railways projects disappear around you.

Yeah, China emissions are still not even half of what the west is doing per capita, and they are taking some giant leaps in renewables.

Not defending, but bullshit propaganda where so much is at stake is just sad - let the scientists talk.

So eloquently put & efficiently communicated, I only wish I could be that articulated with words.

Don’t worry, nobody deserves that.

Instead she is turning on a spit roast somewhere.