Big tech in 2025 makes its money from invading privacy and there’s an increasing demographic of users that don’t see any value in protecting their data from harvesting for some reason
You only have to look at a company like proton who provide a pretty comprehensive suite of privacy focussed software, and yet they’re still very much a niche player in the wider tech industry
Proton are slowing building up solid competition to google on emails, auth, cloud storage, documents. I feel like the main barrier preventing more widespread adoption is literally paying for the service, but I guess that’s the price for privacy
Yep that’s exactly it, it’s hard to convince people to pay for any service on the internet, let alone for something like privacy that many users have been conditioned to not value at all.
Big tech in 2025 makes its money from invading privacy and there’s an increasing demographic of users that don’t see any value in protecting their data from harvesting for some reason
You only have to look at a company like proton who provide a pretty comprehensive suite of privacy focussed software, and yet they’re still very much a niche player in the wider tech industry
Proton are slowing building up solid competition to google on emails, auth, cloud storage, documents. I feel like the main barrier preventing more widespread adoption is literally paying for the service, but I guess that’s the price for privacy
Yep that’s exactly it, it’s hard to convince people to pay for any service on the internet, let alone for something like privacy that many users have been conditioned to not value at all.
Having to pay for privacy tells the whole story of how Big Tech makes their money.