I have to agree since it seems it's not about say owning your data and controlling how it's transformed for your purposes but more for Google and other corporat

I have to agree since it seems it's not about say owning your data and controlling how it's transformed for your purposes but more for Google and other corporations to consume that data to sell to their actual customers (advertisers, govts, whatever). This was inevitable, to be fair, since how do you get people to manage their own data these days? The fact most non-technically inclined people refuse to a use a desktop/mobile email client or host their own sites even when it's easier than ever to do both shows that the bad guys already won. No one wants privacy in the strictest sense. Hell, look at the robbery of Kim Kardashian for the most extreme example of this absurd openness. It's probably why I still use pseudonyms that don't tie back to my legal name, only because I do fear I might set off some jerk and be hounded or worse. Yet everyone and their mother seems to be ready to embrace the panopticon that's come where everyone can see what everyone else is doing (minus govts, corporations, and paranoid jerks like me).