If all the services suck, you could just not use any of them, like everyone did for literally millions of years. I don’t understand why supporting corporate neofascism is OK if their services are convenient.

The point of Uber is to make money. As long as businesses can make money by kicking you in the face, they will do it.

I think the point is that you can’t trust any software. Hardware you can only trust if you built it yourself from simple logic components like transistors. Not sure how you would observe network traffic on that basis, but it’s probably physically impossible to do because it would be so slow that you would die before you finished checking just one day worth of HTTPS requests.

Relevant sketch from A Bit of Fry & Laurie from ~30 years ago.