According to NPR, we can change our settings in Facebook and Google to achieve privacy. https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/922262686/your-technology-is-tracking-you-take-these-steps-for-better-online-privacy
Those settings are like the illusory control provided by the steering wheel on this stroller.
The Matrix (The Google) could be re-made to show all the captive people of the AI stuck in those towers of pods poking and swiping away on their phones to keep producing data for the AI. The original movie had people producing energy for the AI, but what it really needs is a constant flow of data. Poison or impede it, and it starves.
I lived around the world helping some giants as a useful idiot. I am now more selective of where I spend my efforts. I am excited to grow the federation and help the kids around me learn digital safety.
I am in northern California on the water at the base of hills. I tend a garden, paddle the bay, swing rings, and lift logs and chains when I am not developing software and loving those near me.