[Closi]

> Your degree of fear though is irrational unless you are, in fact, a journalist in an authoritarian state.

You are putting words in OP's mouth. OP never said he was fearful, only that he didn't want to be tracked.

Someone friendly could follow me around in real life and watch what I'm doing - and keep suggesting products to me based on getting to know me. I'm not going to be afraid but I am going to be freaking annoyed, and feel like my privacy is violated when he says he isn't going away.

[gjsman-1000]

Not wanting to be tracked is fine.

I'm trying to say his game-plan for not being tracked is immensely flawed. He thinks a nation-state weapon could be used against him, so switch to a third-party messenger which doesn't do the same degree of sandboxing for security. What could go wrong?

If you are worried about a threat that is that niche, and will almost certainly be patched soon, you shouldn't be using any messenger, logically speaking.

[Closi]

IMO you are putting words in their mouth and misrepresenting what OP was saying.

OP wasn't talking just about the pegasus attack, they were talking about the key escrow not being held under end to end encryption on iCloud. That's not going to be patched any time soon, and there are other messengers which don't do this.