Mine was a breach notification a couple of years ago, seeing my actual phone number and address in a dump made the whole “your data gets sold” thing stop being theoretical. I did the usual purge afterward: deleted a bunch of apps, tried degoogling, hardened what I could.
And yet I still have WhatsApp installed, because my entire extended family lives in one group chat there, and I’ve accepted that I’m apparently willing to trade my metadata for not missing my cousin’s wedding photos. By my own standards I should have dropped it years ago. In fact dropped smartphones altogether.
Curious whether this is universal, what’s your holdout? The one app or account you keep despite knowing better, and what would it honestly take for you to finally drop it? (Or if you actually went 100% clean, how did you get your people to follow you?)
Full disclosure: partly asking out of genuine curiosity, partly because I’m doing some independent research on exactly these trade-offs.