One worry about the rising tide of anti-Facebook etc. sentiment is that it is driven by (a) a small number of vocal people who (b) say that x is horrible, but don't act like it. (I don't say whether this worry is always, or even mostly, correct. Just that it is worth considering.) The result can be problematic.

For example, like millions of people in the EU, before I use any new website, I now have to click "OK" on a GDPR button. I consider myself as caring about my privacy. But my behaviour tells me that I just click "OK" without even reading what they have to say. Obviously, my privacy is less important to me than the 10 seconds or 1 minute that it would take to read their policy and opt out from anything I dislike.

You can respond that this is a "dark pattern", and I agree. You could also say it would be better for me to be able to set my privacy once - say, via browser settings - and I indeed try to do that, having used various Firefox settings and plugins to manage my cookies. Nevertheless, the fact is that, as my behaviour reveals, I would rather get on with my life, than waste 10 minutes a day clicking on privacy policies. Given that, of course, I would also rather not be presented with the "GDPR OK button" at all. It's a fleabite of annoyance that I deal with many, many times, and every time I mutter to myself "screw the EU and screw the GDPR". I suspect I am not alone.

I also suspect I will be downvoted for this, by just the noble idealists about whom I am grumbling. Sigh.