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Games mostly, some photography RAW post-production applications, an Android language learning application for some African language... Things I'll take as finished products and for which I accept giving up even the pretence of control - same as third-party services actually. Opposite would be anything I consider infrastructural - such as operating system or messaging.

When free competitive alternatives lack, I also accept some proprietary drivers. Considering how the industry moves towards managed hosting ("cloud") and how ridiculous it makes my old under-utilized family & friends servers look, I'm thinking that, confidentiality issues aside, I could accept what is standardized enough to transparently swap providers - the way my Internet access is wholly in hands of an access provider that I can swap by plugging another one in a free RJ-45 port on my border router (with no perceptible impact because I use none of their bundled services), or the way my domain names are in the hand of a perfectly replaceable registrar.