Maybe it's because it's dangled as a red herring all the time when in fact it is barely relevant whether Google & co sell your data. The fact that they collect

Maybe it's because it's dangled as a red herring all the time when in fact it is barely relevant whether Google & co sell your data. The fact that they collect it in the first place is the real problem. And when they inevitably get hacked and lose the data (happened), or leak the data (happened), or their employees inappropriately access the data (happened), or they hand it over to whatever government after putting up a token fight (happened)... it doesn't matter one bit.