Every time I read a story like this, about MS or Google or Twitter or which-ever big corporate it is, I'm <i>so</i> glad that I exited these platforms and years ago.<p>I left LinkedIn before MS bought it, because it was clear it was being copied by all and sundry.<p>I left GitHub once MS bought it (and I thank God for that, ever time I see another story about MS being awful).<p>I never used Google - they were obviously evil and from quite early on.<p>I may be completely wrong, but I think large companies are completely amoral. Not in a malicious way, but in a can't-be-anything-else kind of way; that is is an emergent property.<p>All large organization have absolutely no moral sense, which is to say, doing things because they are ethical, regardless of costs or benefits, or possessing a capability to assess or modify their own actions on moral criteria.<p>Complaining MS do these things is like complaining a cat jumps on a mouse.<p>I'm not a fan of brutal mouse death, so I don't own a cat.<p>What's critical of course is knowing this, and <i>before</i> deciding to buy into what these companies offer, rather than <i>discovering</i> it after buying into what these companies offer.<p>And these companies will only tell you how wonderful their services are, and nothing about what they're up - nothing about how much and what data they collect, and what they do with it (give it to the State, sell it to all and sundry, with real-time updates included), or what's done with it (mandatory State mass interception).