What do you mean?
I don't use Apple or Google products and I use technology every day.
I don't use Apple or Google products and I use technology every day.
You may also be recorded by Assistant or Siri when visiting friends or relatives, or even just when their phones are near you.
You likely hit Google's cloud every day when visiting websites on its platform.
Rather, whenever it is my choice, I prefer to select products and technologies that don't belong to Apple, Google or similar companies.
@hkarthik implied that it's impossible to use technology and also boycott Apple and/or Google. I agree with them.
You seemed to disagree by saying that you do boycott Apple and Google.
The point I was trying to make is that you're part of their revenue stream even if you yourself don't have any consumer relationship with them. That's why they feel like a monopoly to so many of us and why we criticize them rather than leaving their ecosystem. We can't leave their ecosystem!
One thing I try to do is to minimize how much revenue they get out of me. For example, I use uBlock Origin and uMatrix to block their ads and scripts, their cookies, Google Analytics, etcetera. I hope they are losing money on me, that'd make my day!
I have not avoided technology in general, not by a long shot.
Perhaps we are just quibbling about which definition of the word "support"? In which case I agree that there is one definition of support in which you are right and another in which your parent is right.
Go far enough down any business transaction and you'll find a cause you disagree with. If the tree you planted makes oxygen for your worst enemy, will you cut down the tree to spite them?
There are plenty of people who would look at this situation, and do whatever they can to make sure they don't enable that person.