[aleph_minus_one]

> N'ah mate, the main reason is tax fraud, not trust in data holding entities, otherwise nobody in Germany would use Google/Instagram/TikTok if they cared so much about their data privacy.

The people who are very vocal about (data) privacy in Germany (which are quite some people, though not all) indeed typically try to avoid such services.

[Rinzler89]

There's a difference between "some vocal people" and "the majority of people".

And there's a difference between being vocal and actually walking the walk and doing anything about it.