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Just imagine if they hadn't taken this approach. We might be paying for services and still not getting any privacy.
Spot on. There's no amount of money in the world that would make them not spy on your and use your data for ads and God knows what else.
The only sane alternative is FOSS.
FOSS does nothing if you don't control the data