> All the money spent on regulations and regulators to cover increasingly niche opt-in services that are entirely unnecessary is a waste.

That isn't what's happening. The regulations don't get little niche cases added to them, they're writen to be generally applicable to all niches.

> It's not a medical requirement from a doctor, so just keep a diary if you want to.

"Just don't use the computer if you don't want companies to rat you out to the fascist government that'll imprison or kill you for having a miscarriage" is a ridiculous victim-blaming position.

It's the practical reality of a fascist government that they won't enact privacy laws. And yes, women really shouldn't be using period tracking apps in the US, or made by the US. But that doesn't mean privacy laws are some "silly waste of my tax money".

It's not a "medical requirement" except for the many many many cases where it is. Similarly, this position extends to literally everything. Nothing "needs to be an app". But unless we want to pack up and discard the entire software industry, it really ought to be better about privacy like this.