@lina@vt.social This is TCPA all over again, but potentially worse. End result of that: ...not reached yet, as the modern x86 computing stack is always under threat from Microsoft making their final step to insist on making their Secure Boot with their keys mandatory.
When it comes to problems like this, I haven't worked out a solution which involves convincing the "useful idiots" just how badly they're being abused by the services they use. They always seem to lean in favour of "but I'm using it and enjoying it a lot of the time therefore it's perfectly OK".
Case in point, I have to remind people that I actually cannot use Discord because they locked my account for "suspicious activity" and I refuse to give them my phone number. One friend said something like "yeah that happened to me so I just gave them my number". Another friend offered to let me use a burner number.
I can't even convince people to use LibreOffice, because they refuse to even consider anything that is an alternative to a Microsoft product (unless it's IE or Edge), so what do they do? They cave in and buy a subscription for Office 365.
A former coworker actually had to flee their country some time after purchasing a subscription. When they had to renew their subscription, they weren't able to do it from where they ended up, and they had to call Microsoft support. Their response? "Go back to the country where you purchased your subscription from and then do the purchase from there."
Raw fear hasn't really fixed that problem yet. Remember macro viruses? People still insist on using MS Office. Remember Wannacry? People still insist on using Windows... and also people are stupid enough to think that a particular TLA can still be trusted with anyone's security.
A possible solution for something like this is for the experience of Chrome specifically to be so utterly terrible on a popular website that they have no choice but to use something else. Pity Mozilla is basically a puppet for Google nowadays, and everything else seems to be Blink- or WebKit-based. But popular websites have an incentive to support the most popular browsers, so that ain't gonna happen.
I really need to find a solution for that. For one of the examples, perhaps I should fork LibreOffice, fill it with Microsoft branding, and shove it on peoples' computers and see if they notice. Not sure how well that would extend to websites, but it would be a good experiment.
... it would also ruin my reputation as someone who is known for being honest. Bleh.