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Back in the old days when a software contains these crap, considered as adware/malware and people get their pitchforks.
Now: its normal.
there's a whole class of users born with smartphone, those were not techie or concerned, then you have the other class who don't know really anything about these things which only use smartphones.
even discussing with family about privacy is difficult. "but everyone use it"... gosh. then you have some of my IT colleagues - there for the good money job - which don't care with the motto: I have nothing to hide.
anyway, stay true to your principles no matter what.
I blame these "tech youtubers" who don't understand anything technical and keep repeating the script which the company provides them. I saw this idiot MKBHD telling his viewers how a phone has a "beast mode". Wtf is a beast mode? ! Non technical guys eat shit like this and proceeds to buy because the phone has beast mode lol.
These are exactly my thoughts about tech YouTubers. They have no idea what they're talking about and encourage mindless consumption. Glad I'm not the only one who's thought about this.