If someone tells them to, they might try until a few business interests remind them that these are also fundamental components of business networks. Once money tells them to stop it, they will.

VPN companies should just hire a lobbyist for a week and this will all go away.

Exactly this. There’s maybe 8 politicians in the whole world that understand what a VPN is. They’re told by a lobbyist and donor that it’s a thing that is bad, now they’re out to figure out how to make it go away.

PLEASE check out any privacy community on Lemmy, PrivacyGuides.org, or ugh…even /r/Privacy

Saying “I have nothing to hide” does nothing but empower the surveillance state. You are living in a surveillance state and advertising tracking data is how you are tracked.

privacy@lemmy.world privacy@lemmy.ml privacy@lemmy.ca privacy@lemmy.ca

I would bet it will turn the corner around 2042

Microsoft might agree with this.