I think you are selecting a small subset of tech for your argument.

For example: - Apple is the one driving stronger privacy, and Apple is tech.

- Microsoft would actually get on my good side if they stopped with their telemetry and ads fuckery on Windows. If they lost all of their ad revenue today, they would still be producing cloud products, Windows, Office, Xboxes, etc.

- The reason why Netflix has lost momentum is because several other competitors built their own streaming platforms. All tech stacks, driven by cloud platforms.

- Amazon will still have their cloud platform, and their store, and their shop platform. Tougher regulation won’t remove Amazon’s edge on cloud technologies, warehouses, and logistics.

- Traditional tech companies, such as Oracle, IBM, HP, and similars won’t be affected at all by tightening of privacy.

- Heck, even Salesforce has its edge on corporate customers and B2B, and wouldn’t feel that much of a hit.

Tech is much, much more than Meta and Google. Google can still push ads based on search queries and webpage content anyway, without violating privacy.

So your argument is essentially about Meta. And that’s true, Meta is under risk. And that’s a good thing. They have created a lot of damage and need to correct their products.

Every tech company you listed has some kind of ad-based revenue. They're all data vacuums, and a lot of their current and especially future value is tied to how much user data they have access to and how they can monetize it further.

You ever hear the phrase data is the new oil?

“some kind of ad-based revenue” carrying a lot of water in that sentence. Apple, for example, have an ads business, but it’s a drop in the ocean compared to iPhone, or hell even iCloud.

I’ll take oil over their largely useless data. A large percentage of the ad data is tailored toward the same things like “what types of ads are people forced to click on?”.

Maybe that’s good. Clear out the unprofitable and invasive underbrush. Move that talent in other directions.