You never had any fucking freedom in regards to these services. The article is a bug-scare and is just trash. You might as well rail against their requirements to include numbers and special-characters in passwords--"oh, that's infringing on my freedoms! Just yesterday you accepted my password of "password", but now it's no longer acceptable? Wow fascism! Telling people they need to have numbers and special-characters! This is a slippery slope. People rise up and don't put any numbers or special-characters in your passwords!" I can't deride enough the point of view that originated this article. It's the most brain-dead boomer point of view I've yet seen. An epitome of manchild that's endemic to tech.