Your opinion is unpopular in this subset of folks here, but it's valid.

It isn't out-of-keeping in this kind of company for a person to start discussions about personal data privacy. In fact: We chat about this stuff here all the time.

But in reality: The number of discussions I've had about personal data privacy and monetization face-to-face with people that I did not meet through a computer network, or bring up myself is exactly 1.

It's thus my observation that most people in the world care about this issue approximately...never.

(The reason they don't care may be that they don't know enough to even begin to question whether the people behind their air fryer, genealogical DNA service, garage door opener, and food delivery system may have ulterior motives.

But guesses about root causation are, at best, both tangential and broadly inconsequential. We can guess and figure and re-figure and even prove theories until the cows come home.

And it doesn't matter.

They didn't care yesterday, they still don't care today while I write this, and they will continue to not care tomorrow.)