ScroogeMcDoug

There's obviously no inherent problem, but their reasoning is all theoretical and there's no reason not to expand it further based on their own logic. If you don't trust Google, why would you trust any of the other major players online like AWS, Azure, Cloudflare etc? Without those the internet basically doesn't work and you'd be better off not even bothering, thus meaning option 2 is the end result of the privacy minded.

It's a selfish attitude, but certainly a more realistic one for most people. Look at it this way: You enjoy eating meat, and aren't interested in giving that up for the benefit of others just like others aren't willing to give up their desire to have children for your benefit.

The mobile ad market is proof enough that the ad industry as a whole is terrible. Blocking ads on iOS and Android is harder for the average user than on Desktop, and it's abused to a ridiculous degree. Popups, redirects, trying to trick users into installing malicious apps, etc.

The ad industry had a second chance with mobile, and they showed they couldn't control themselves.

FastMail's servers are in the US.

Blocking an entire country from accessing infrastructure in other countries would only help these authoritarian nations foster nationalism.

Historically, I've found Google search borderline impossible to use via Tor because it'd usually give me an error page after solving the captcha. Occasionally you'll find a window where they're not nulling Tor IPs, but it's rarely worth the time.

Wouldn't a pig farm fall under different regulations than a residential plot of land?

Seems to work well for carder forums.