I like the cut of your jib (and completely forgot about CCleaner--I really used to like that too) the problem is > So they got one less customer. you actually still have faith in this political/economic system. I don't. They have a monopoly, or the big data companies basically have one. Can you exist without an Android phone: yeah, *technically*. They will sacrifice a few individuals without care because they have the masses in their grip. It is a constant burden to try and remain un-tracked. You effectively become socially ostracized--yeah it is because you didn't drink the kool-aid, but none-the-less I see more-and-more little subtleties building up where not being a part of the big data/media gang gives everyone an awareness of "common knowledge" (truth, news, etc.) that gets ingrained so deeply it effects general opinion and behavior [I might be stating the obvious here]. Anyway, if your really want/*attempt* to avoid all that, it not only becomes socially isolating in certain ways: it effects your functionality in business and day-to-day productivity. Remember the good-ole-days when *everyone* thought being tracked by GPS by companies was a horror?--and now it is nearly unavoidable (at least if you want to not live in a cabin like the Unibomber) and bizarrely accepted. fuck that. it shouldn't be that hard to both opt-out of data collection *and* function/not-self-isolate in your life. ______ >There were a few that I wanted to join and be a member but that would also require signing up for the full communist protocol inundation. and that isolation also leads to your views not being in (((their))) eco-system. ____ >So they got one less customer. would work in a fair system where anti-trust was actually in effect. I'm passed that. There needs to be a political change in order to avoid the unavoidable {*technically* avoidable} evils which will lead to no good end for civilization or the quality of life of the individual. It is exploitation plain-and-simple, and (((that))) is nothing new.