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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.

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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.

This is a GDPR violation if you load any of them (even the fonts) before the user consents to data sharing with Google, btw.

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