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I am one of those people. Nothing bad has ever happened to me in the decades I've been putting my info online beyond a bad actor getting ahold of my credit card info for a minute. I just don't see the issue when companies with my data actively make my life better..?
It could happen to you, but it has happened, is happening, and will continue to happen to other people. And you enable it happening to other people by participating in it.
Here's a good example
Here's another where the police used Facebook messages to target a woman getting an abortion
Just take one look at China to see the kind of dystopian future we're heading toward. Look up Zhima credit. Look up what happens to protestors.
The short version is, your government can easily turn fascist at a moment's notice, and when it does there's no way to claw back all that data you put out there.
I don't give a single shit about what Google or Facebook has on me, other than the fact that they give a backdoor to that data to every government body that asks.