Our only recourse is that we punish them with our wallets, advice and habits and reward good actors. I'm a firm believer of this but we need more people to joi

Our only recourse is that we punish them with our wallets, advice and habits and reward good actors. I'm a firm believer of this but we need more people to join in. And it already works to some degree. I've now had a working search engine for almost 3 years. My last 3 jobs (9 years) haven't forced me to use Windows. I can chat and organize events without Facebook knowing. And it is not like the quality has gone down either. My choices have mostly given me better experiences in a number of ways. Edit: If more people start - advocating for better hardware and software, - canceling subscriptions and memberships when it becomes clear they are reducing value or increasing price, - building skills both to get independent from their current cloud (so you can move around or at least having a credibile possibility to do so) - and for individuals to get better jobs then I think things will change. For inspiration: at least here in Norway, with several gym memberships, if you cancel they will quickly approach you with good offers, and they can get really good: I got several months free, a friend got offered free months and a sizable gift card. Bonus: if more people join in this will get picked up by Wall Street and they will begin punishing this nonsense too ;-)