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> It's trivial to setup a basic account for any site that doesn't contain any personal data you want to keep hidden

It's equally trivial for a restaurant to set up a custom domain with their own 2-page website (overview and menu) on any of a hundred platforms that provide this service.

Most of these services are not free like FB, but any business that can afford a landline phone can afford a real website.

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> Most of these services are not free like FB

There are free ones as well, just as a subdomain (something.wordpress.com or something.wix.com), not a full top level custom domain.

>It's equally trivial for a restaurant to set up a custom domain with their own 2-page website (overview and menu) on any of a hundred platforms that provide this service.

Sure but they don't want to. If you want to see the menu they have online you need to follow their rules, not your own.

And if they want me as a customer, they have to follow _my_ rules.

Obviously the restaurant has enough other customers and I have enough other restaurants to go to, so we both will be fine.

>And if they want me as a customer, they have to follow _my_ rules.

Sure, but putting their menu behind a trivial to access account shows they don't want you as a customer. You're the one complaining, not them.

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