Sure, we talk about the problem a lot. But we need to take action. It seems every big corporation are abusing the trust we give them in some form or another.
Please, for the love of God, can anybody prove me wrong. Are there any companies than don't abuse our trust?
I guess you need to look in the direction of GNU/Linux. For example, company https://puri.sm. They have nice laptops and nice Debian-based OS and they are working on the phone (soon to be released).
If a murderer knocks on your door, informs you that if you let them in they're going to brutally murder you, but you choose to ignore that because they brought you free stuff, you don't get to complain about being murdered later.
Actually, you do; murder is illegal even if you were informed in advance. The same should be with the ad industry. See GDPR.
A terms of service is not a free pass to do whatever the fuck you want. Just because I agreed to Apple's terms of service doesn't mean they can turn me into a human centiPad, even if it says so in the small print.
They never say that. They just do it.
Anyway, you're right, and so are the other people pointing out quite correctly that murder is still illegal and an agreement doesn't magically give them a right to kill me. But you know what isn't illegal? A company selling your data that you gave to them and agreed to allow them to sell in exchange for providing a service. Yes, I know there are some weak protection rules out there, and things like the GDPR exist in some countries. IANAL, but an app using permissions that you gave it, to do things it says it's going to do in its description and/or TOS is not illegal in most countries. If it was, we'd not be in the privacy clusterfuck that we're in today.
The point is that trust has nothing to do with it. If anything, these companies tell you exactly what they're going to do (and if they don't, that's another problem altogether which I'm not getting into here) and you can trust that they will do what they said they're going to do to make as much money from you as they can. Treating companies like living, empathetic human beings worthy of your trust to "be nice and give you a product for free without selling your data you agreed to allow them to sell" is silly.
It makes a lot of sense to keep your customers happy in the long run (bottom line and stock value).