[eternityforest]

Those people should be able to avoid the profiling, but any solution should be aimed at protecting those people, without impacting the 95% who don't care enough to give up convenience or pay for private services too much.

[jstimpfle]

Maybe my view is warped (I'm from Germany) but 95% seems a tad high...

[eternityforest]

It might be. I actually have no idea how to assess the real number.

The Cisco survey(https://iapp.org/news/a/new-cisco-study-emphasizes-consumer-...) says 79% are willing to invest time or money to protect their privacy, but a lot less seem to actually do anything about it.

Almost everyone I know is on Facebook and Gmail, most seem to use Chrome, etc.

It seems to vary a lot with subculture. Programmers always seem to be more willing to sacrifice convenience, and people who watch porn seem to be more interested in privacy than most.

I suspect there's a pretty large segment that only cares in theory, at most, and only then just on principle because of the other people who have more interesting data.

Maybe not 95% but probably 90% of certain subsets at least.