Exactly. Consumer tech today from social media to hardware devices like doorbell cameras seem to only be able to exist (eg. funded) if they include collecting d

Exactly. Consumer tech today from social media to hardware devices like doorbell cameras seem to only be able to exist (eg. funded) if they include collecting data on the user. Therein is the problem and there is no technical reason why tech x has to include spying features. But if there is no way to get tech x to market without them, then so be it. As an individualist myself, I am retreating rapidly in to not using tech. The last thing I would ever do is put an Amazon microphone in my kitchen or a Google camera on my door. I have switched to DDG and Brave. And as time allows, considering ways to use email and phones without being spied on. It's a sad state of affairs - not so much the market reality that privacy breaching is the primary monetization, but that not everyone else is like me and rejects it. The masses willingly swallow it.