You say on an Internet forum using the latest decentralized forum posting technology....  What browser did you use to view this?  Chrome by chance?  Or maybe Safari?  And on an Android or Apple phone?  Hmmm....  It's far more pervasive than you give it credit for.  Google & Apple have become the govt of the Internet.  I'm not happy about it, but it is unrealistic to attempt to exist on the Internet without them.  If you want to unplug, then go ahead.  I'll see you back here in a couple of days.

Oh BTW, I did exist and succeed in computing 35 years ago.   But that was at a time when everyone didn't expect you to have access to technology provided by these juggernauts - when people had real maps in their glove boxes, no phones to carry around, etc.  It was romantic back then, but definitely if I had to live like I did in 1978, it would be so far removed from the norm that I would look like a villager in a tribe in Africa somewhere, with about that level of productivity and competitiveness.