Well, I don't really worry much about trying to avoid it. I do stuff somewhere along the lines of your "best bang for the minute" guidelines (aside from running

Well, I don't really worry much about trying to avoid it. I do stuff somewhere along the lines of your "best bang for the minute" guidelines (aside from running my own mail server). However, it does concern me that it exists. They use this data to manipulate people. To drive "engagement", which means addiction. I could spend too long describing the evil in it, but at the end of the day, why do they care so much about the data? It all only really comes down to a way to manipulate people... into buying goods, into believing things... without hyperbole, just to try to avoid listing out so many points and examples, their desire for data stands in opposition to the popular conception of free will and democracy. I will always take a strong dislike to people and organizations attempting to manipulate me by means other than simply providing value in my life and getting some value back in exchange. At this point, it concerns me less how much data they collect on me, and that we as a society haven't dropped some kind of regulatory hammer on them before they almost literally brainwash us out of the notion that we would even want something like it.