We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14248490 and marked it off-topic.

In many parts of the country, consumers don't have the luxury of choice between ISPs. Heck, I live in the Bay Area and my two options are between Comcast Xfinity and Comcast for Business. (I went for the latter because they have slightly stronger promises around my personal information.) I have to do business with Comcast because I need internet service, and I have no other reasonable source for it.

Enough with this crap, many places have one provider to choose from. This is especially true in cities where many live in apartments or condos, and also in rural areas where the cost of build-out is very high.

Okay. I'll become less effective at my job, because the only search engine worth a darn is the second largest dataminer in the world.

In fact, scratch that, I won't even have internet access, because the ISP datamines me. Now I'm out of work and homeless.

No bank accounts either. The only stuff near me are instances of corporate banks that datamine my spending habits all to hell. Same for credit cards.

When you figure out how to do this "just don't do business with companies you don't like" thing in a way that doesn't turn me into a homeless pariah, please let me know.