Claims like: you asked for it, it's your own fault, and on and on.

You know you're full of shit.

You're part of that same group of people who say: America, love it or leave it. You have the option to speak English or get the fuck out.

It's like hearing someone tell me that I can vote nuclear weapons out of existence. Like I can solve all my problems with my own little boycott! Oh really?

I've opted into mandatory JavaScript support, and opaque, minified JS which is required for so many sites to even work (cross-origin policies aside), and I can stop server-side exchanges of behavioral data, and I can just walk away from everything happening around me, and live in a cave, and I can opt into being a luddite instead?

I suppose I opted into the planes that fly overhead too. My omission of any actions against air traffic represent my token assent to having tons of aluminum circling overhead 24 hours a day. Right?

You know very well that their analytics product tracks everybody all across the Web (and techies are the only ones who know about noscript). And what do you do when you are forced to reply to Gmail emails because others who have no clue use it?

Joe the user has no clue about "all this technical stuff", how it works, what it is capable of, how it can be combined with data from other DBs, how it is really used by the corporate and governmental world and where all this is going, especially when AI will have advanced even more.