It’s really hard to establish privacy in this age. Everything store bought will fight you on it. And everything store bought will fight different solutions, so it’s harder to stay in contact with your friends; or get them to change with you. It’s just way easier to fight the “newcomers”. And that’s a start at least.

Yo, if it has round corners and sounds USAmerican it must be so cool!

The rot is deep. Avoiding it often requires you to become a hermit.

You try convincing your tech unsavvy friends to change services, your boss to let you use linux, and all your favorite communities not to use Discord, Google and YouTube. Last of all; good luck finding that one obscure widget you need right now to make something work without using Amazon.

I promise all of the above are harder than they sound. It shouldn’t be harder; but it is.

They don’t even have free will. They just blindly trust whatever the government says. And also, for them, anything american means freedom, also the freedom to have privacy as well, so they’ll get annoyed or ignore you if you dare tell them the truth about the other American origin services as well.