sadly active users of social media such as facebook, tiktok and other popular ones do not really care about their privacy data, currently there are several decentralized but unattractive social media platforms on the market.
I have been using duckduckgo since there was news that google was selling data to advertisers (sounds like a conspiracy), people who do not respect their privacy are delicious food for capitalists.
The decentralised platforms are unpopular just because they don't have huge money to invest on there marketing. This is also a sad reality that people despite knowing the fact that social media platforms like facebook are using and selling our data, we still actively use these platform and willingly provide our personal data for there benefits.
duckduckgo is great browser that focus on data privacy by not tracking it's users. The reason why duckduckgo is still at back seat while google chrome and firefox are at driving seat is because the majority of users don't care about data privacy.
The important thing is what data are they collecting and does that data actually pose a threat to the safety or , more seriously, the lives of users? I don't think it's that serious, what they collect is just preferences, daily needs and they use them for advertising purposes for products that users need. In return , users will be able to use those apps without any additional costs. That's not fair enough ?
Another thing is that they don't force us to use their services and they are also clear about data collection in their terms of service. It's just that we are too lazy to read and start blaming when we hear they are collecting our data, and they are not forcing us, we have the right not to use their services.
Many people complain about these companies collecting their data but what I still wonder is do these people really care about their data or do they just see others saying so and follow?