This can easily be turned on its head though. Clearly, your desire for privacy is far larger than everyone else. Why should they have to suffer for your desire. You could use privacy oriented services instead.
> Clearly, your desire for privacy is far larger than everyone else.
Is it? How do you know? Most people don't have even a partial understanding of the risks associated with personal information collection. Most people don't even read terms of service and privacy policies. How many users even know what a cookie is?
The fact is people trust the service providers with the data. They assume that their data will be used responsibly for their benefit. Recent history shows that this assumption is completely unfounded.
> Why should they have to suffer for your desire. You could use privacy oriented services instead.
The fact is the vast majority of services are not and never will be privacy-oriented. Paid service or not, they'd make more money if they sold people's private information. Not doing that is a wasted opportunity to them, it's as if they were actively choosing to make less money. So instead of excluding people who don't agree with surveillance capitalism, it should be impossible to collect any information to begin with.
Besides, we should not be ostracized and be forced to live off-grid as if we were in some cyberpunk story just because we value our privacy.
You don't need to live off grid. You just have will get more expensive tools and services because of the smaller size of your niche and the lack of ad money.there's a seemingly sizable crowd out here that is highly invested in such. Would targeting them make as much money? Probably not. But would this be a sustainable market?
