> Google funnels your data but give you better search, MS swipes some info about your PC to give you better drivers, Facebook takes all your likes and dislikes

> Google funnels your data but give you better search, MS swipes some info about your PC to give you better drivers, Facebook takes all your likes and dislikes to give you stories to your taste Google's search results are on steady decline over past years, result filled with ripoff pages, often original pages are buried deep in the list full of ripoffs. Started using duckduckgo much more because of this. MS drivers tailoring or whatever you meant are presumably a joke, I know which driver for which hardware I need and if not simple system scan should be enough. And FB feed is crap too, worst point was when feed was completely randomized on every reload, very frustrating. Even now its pretty bad - some posts hang on top for a week, interesting new stuff is buried somewhere deep. I would be much happier without any of those. Good effect is, these 'platforms' are getting worse and I am using them less and less (FB is at the end anything but social), or using competition