Most privacy advocates probably do plenty of things I would be perfectly happy to see made illegal, but we don't just ban them because we don't want a complete dictatorship of one segment of the population over everyone else, and because it seems the people realize it would cause problems for some people, and we need to be careful to find suitable replacements before we ban things.
A lot of the tech I imagine you are referring to has been life changing for me, and if it cost normal SASS prices would not be affordable.
Regulations and disclosures are good, but a straight ban would (depending on how it was written) quite likely affect services that inherently require mass data collection, like Tile trackers, and might make other services have to do subscriptions and become unaffordable for many.
If there was a state sponsored Pine64 style company that could do all of what Google does for the same price without spying, it would be great. But at the moment, the FOSS community does not have true equivalents, or the budget or interest to do so, nor the marketing power to do the stuff that only works if everyone else uses it, and the non-spy commercial solutions have many of the same issues and cost too much for low income people.
A lot of the tech I imagine you are referring to has been life changing for me, and if it cost normal SASS prices would not be affordable.
Regulations and disclosures are good, but a straight ban would (depending on how it was written) quite likely affect services that inherently require mass data collection, like Tile trackers, and might make other services have to do subscriptions and become unaffordable for many.
If there was a state sponsored Pine64 style company that could do all of what Google does for the same price without spying, it would be great. But at the moment, the FOSS community does not have true equivalents, or the budget or interest to do so, nor the marketing power to do the stuff that only works if everyone else uses it, and the non-spy commercial solutions have many of the same issues and cost too much for low income people.