Well, according to a study conducted a few years ago, most people actually doesn't give up their information enthusiastically.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/06/the-online-privacy-lie-is-...

I usually eat lunch somewhere between 12:00-14:00 and then something between 18:00-20:00 in the evening.

That's all, been doing it for about 17 years now and it works great. Although I drink coffee throughout the day.

Actually they do follow the EU regulation. It states that the power adapters use the standard USB connector which Apple complies with. What you're thinking about is the cable between the adapter and the phone/tablet/whatever, and that cable isn't part of the regulation, only the power adaptor.

> The European Standardisation Bodies CEN, CENELEC and ETSI (independent of the OMTP/GSMA proposal) defined a common External Power Supply (EPS) for use with smartphones sold in the EU based on Micro-USB. [...] Apple, one of the original MoU signers, makes Micro-USB adapters available – as permitted in the Common EPS MoU – for its iPhones equipped with Apple's proprietary 30-pin dock connector or (later) Lightning connector.[1]

Nonetheless, framing ones' opinion of Apple's sustainability practices on this one pet issue seems quite myopic. The actual sustainability complaint stems from the alleged poor durability, not the choice of connection; but even if we accept that criticism, replacing charging cables occasionally seems like small drop in the bucket vs. the company's environmental impact as a whole.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Mini_and_micro_connectors

I understand your point but its not really fair. The choice is not always conscious when there are a thousand behavioral analysts on the other side of the screen trying to make you use their apps more and more.

I would say its the lack of a conscious choice that makes us using our phones so much.

I don't quite get the behavioural analysis bits. I spend time on my phone reading the news, reddit, HN, a couple blogs, WhatsApp with friends and I also play games here and there until they bore me. The game I logged the most time in is a port of a game made by a shareware-style developer back in the ninetees.

Where was such analysis involved in driving my usage patterns?

So there are a lot of talk about using DuckDuckGo instead of Google but I'm wondering if anyone have considered using Bing as a middle ground?

Sure they track you but in my understanding they actually suck at it. :)