> The amount of privacy we've globally lost just for a few advertising dollars is atrocious.

What is the actual consequence of this "lost privacy"? What would be tangibly different in your life right now if you hadn't "lost" it?

My answer - nothing whatsoever, no harm comes to me at all from some statistical algorithm calculating what ads I might want to see, and in fact I've bought several cool products off Instagram that I didn't know about otherwise. This is a completely illusory harm that has been made up by what is essentially a cabal of professional agitators and propagandists.