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OH soooo did I.
Used to piss me off, it all seemed so simple to me. If something prompts you to download out of the blue, DON"T!
Noone would ever listen. The waterfall desktops and stupid emoji's everywhere were enough of a carrot for them to sacrifice performance.
Its downright scary now. Google seems to work fine enough even though its one big data mining rig, whereas facebook always felt sluggish to the point you could "feel" like you were being tracked.
Meanwhile every other big company is still data mining, because there are still companies paying for the data. >

I remember back in like 2000 data mining was considered spyware.
Then along came google and integrated spyware into the "cool new software" that everyone wanted. 
Then people stopped caring.
Although maybe with all these data breaches, and the failure of "smart home" garbage by google and amazon, maybe people are starting to say enough.
Soon enough Im sure one of these tech companies will partner with home builders to integrate all its crap into the build so you have no choice. >

I used to have a rotation of family and friends asking me to clean their computers of this crap. I firmly believe that once they figured out how to streamline the code so that it didn't cause performance issues, that was when people stopped caring.