Too bad about sponsorship privacy limitations imposed by microsoft/github

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Microsoft purchased github quite some time ago and it certainly isn't unexpected the things they do with the platform. After all, their end-goal is profit and I'm certainly not opposed to that.

Problem is, I often run head-long into issues anytime I deal directly or indirectly with microsoft or any of it's products because it's a constant and disrespectful onslaught of information-gathering at every turn (ever use Windows, for example?). This is why I left all microsoft products behind about a decade ago.

Now microsoft is again an impediment for me since they own this platform and have therefore injected themselves between myself and my independent software developers. Clever strategy on their part, forcing every single person that wishes to donate to a developer to expose personal and private information in addition to prohibiting the use of virtual cards. These hoops are absolutely unnecessary and irrelevant to safely making payment to developers of my choice and it's a sad shame microsoft imposes these selfish artificial barriers that prohibit safety and security conscious users from providing potentially substantial aid to independent open-source projects.

To the trolls that may respond to this apologizing for microsoft in the name of safety and security, well, all I can say is that argument falls flat on me. I'm 30 years in the IT space and I know from behind the curtain the real motivations of microsoft's dark-pattern behavior.

My two cents, which considering inflation is worth about half that.

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