It's easy to dig up a survey someone did that supports the conclusions you wish were true. It's much harder to find the actual state of reality.
If you click through to their report, you'll realize that there's not much information about their sample, other than this:
From January 14 to February 15, 2019, Malwarebytes Labs conducted a survey on nearly 4,000 participants to measure respondents’ confidence in their own privacy and security practices, as well as their confidence in privacy being maintained by businesses.
There's absolutely no information about the demographic breakdown of the participants and no way to access the dataset itself. In other words, we have no way of establishing that this survey is worth anything more than a blog post on a site that tries to promote its software.
I care about my privacy, but the steps I can take to protect it are inadequate.
I am in the vast majority (97%) according to this survey:
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/security-world/2019/03/labs-su...
Here are some numbers from the article:
An overwhelming majority of respondents (96 percent) feel that online privacy is crucial. And their actions speak for themselves: 97 percent say they take steps to protect their online data, whether they are on a computer or mobile device.
There is a near equal percentage of people who trust (39 percent) and distrust (34 percent) search engines across all generations.
Across the board, there is a universal distrust of social media (95 percent). We can then safely assume that respondents are more likely to trust search engines to protect their data than social media.
When asked to agree or disagree with the statement, “I feel confident about sharing my personal data online,” 87 percent of respondents disagree or strongly disagree.