When I saw how privacy hostile and generally manipulative the whole mobile revolution was, I knew it was coming to other platforms too. There is just too much

When I saw how privacy hostile and generally manipulative the whole mobile revolution was, I knew it was coming to other platforms too. There is just too much money to be made in surveillance and targeted advertising, especially since margins are collapsing elsewhere and people want everything to be 'free.' Surveillance is the business model of the Internet, at least in the B2C space. I'm not optimistic about it changing because frankly nobody cares. The only people who care are a small fraction of "cryppie" types and coincidentally these tend to also be the people who use FOSS and/or pirate everything. Not paying money is like not voting. Vendors have absolutely no incentive to give a damn about what you want. I am not aware of a single case where a product has been significantly harmed in the market or failed due to privacy invasion. In fact, even major security problems (also related to privacy) generally do not harm products in the long term.