Keeping _more_ of your data private is not impossible. It won't necessarily be the most comfortable thing, as tradeoffs will be made, but you can claw back quite a bit of privacy if that is important to you.
Of course, but that's not what the person I was responding to said. They blamed people for trusting services (many of which) they don't have an option to opt out of.
And this whole thread is just proving my point by blaming people and customers for the mistakes of technology companies.
And this whole thread is just proving my point by blaming people and customers for the mistakes of technology companies.