I've given up on companies and developers respecting my privacy. Not because they're all evil, but because it doesn't scale. There's an unlimited number of comp

I've given up on companies and developers respecting my privacy. Not because they're all evil, but because it doesn't scale. There's an unlimited number of companies that you would have to deal with. Use a firewall that blocks or MITMs all outbound network requests by default. It's the only way to know what every app is calling home to and reporting about. Think about it, which scales better? Raise your point of view with the developer of every app you want to use, or putting blanket protections in place at the gateway level one time and performing minor whitelisting tweaks (that you can do yourself!) over time? I just fear for all those who don't know any better.