Here's a taste of what can happen to businesses who put all their tech eggs in one proprietary corporate basket: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/terraria-developer-cancels-google-stadia-port-after-youtube-account-ban/ Moral of the story: don't do it.
I've previously explained why this is a really really bad idea (and affects most gov'ts as well as most businesses and institutions worldwide today) but people never listen... https://davelane.nz/mshostage
@lightweight Well put. When people think of the threats from Big Tech, they think of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple. The one causing the most inefficiencies and problems is often just an afterthought; we are so used to it as the infrastructure and that it isn't questioned much anymore.
@mpanhans where digital tech is concerned, we're in the midst of a dark age, literacy-wise...