If you buy your privacy services for $9.99/month from a sponsored ad in a YouTube video, then yeah.
If you are willing to spend 6+ digits, there are absolutely good solid privacy products/services you can get. These folks aren't catering to individuals or street criminals, though.
You're falling for the exact same fallacy as the dipshits in the article fell for. The FBI was selling the ANØM "service" for $4000 per phone per year.
That's a couple orders of magnitude below the bar of what I am referring to.
I agree, if you're a person with a serious targeted privacy threat, and you think there's a magic bullet, you're kidding yourself. Any serious data privacy solution is going to involve a ton of associated meatspace solutions beyond buying one SKU and calling it done.
If you are willing to spend 6+ digits, there are absolutely good solid privacy products/services you can get. These folks aren't catering to individuals or street criminals, though.