All else being equal, more privacy is always good. I think the examples given are just there to get normal people to care about this too. Similar to when abort

All else being equal, more privacy is always good. I think the examples given are just there to get normal people to care about this too. Similar to when abortion was outlawed in the US and suddenly people cared a lot about all that Google Maps location history that Google was saving. It's much easier to convince people to mitigate a real problem than it is to prevent a hypothetical future problem. So convince them to mitigate this "real" problem that governments can see your dictionary queries, and hopefully that might prevent an actually real future problem.