> No other big-tech company goes to such great lengths to deanonymize users and make its services difficult to use, especially during account creation.

meta comes to mind? you can't even interact with their services unless you have an account, and they ban you if you don't reveal yourself transparently. then they ask you for a state-issued ID to appeal bans. seems like some great lengths to me.

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margalabargala 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I agree. Meta is as bad as if not worse than Google.

It is however much easier to navigate life without Meta than without Google. Even if you use different email, etc, if you collaborate with someone on a doc or whatever they are likely to send you a google link.

	▲	m463 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		google is everywhere. Most websites have one or more of google fonts, google apis, googletagmanager/doubleclick, captcha or more. One up-and-coming entrant is cloudflare, which prevents you from accessing websites unless you have javascript and cookies enabled. all the other cdn providers do this too, like akamai, fastly, cloudflare, etc.