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I don't do business with either Google or Apple.

I don't need them to do anything at all.

There are competitors to Visa.

I can do anything I want without Apple, Visa, Google and even Amazon and Microsoft.

>> I can do anything I want without Apple, Visa, Google and even Amazon and Microsoft.

Really? How can you even know which services or products depend in some way on GCP, Azure, or AWS (not to mention product and services that are built using other services that depend on those)?

Why do I care if some service uses them? I severely restrict service usage anyway.

> Why do I care if some service uses them [GCP, Azure, AWS]?

Because you said

> I can do anything I want without Apple, Visa, Google and even Amazon and Microsoft.

So if "some service" that you use uses them, then you're not doing anything you want without them.

I rarely use services anyway because it is typically a bad idea to get so intertwined with software that I can't control.

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