Ricaz

I live in Europe, and it's most definitely opt-in.

Proton and Wine are largely the same thing. Proton just has DXVK built in as well as a bunch of Valve-made patches.

Valve had greatly accelerated Wine development. I still run many games off pure Wine with manually added DXVK.

I live in Europe so maybe that's why it asked me if I wanted to enable it.

Yes, and people are free to choose and think what they want. Everyone knows there can be shady things in ToS, they just don't care, and that's honestly fine.

A more serious issue, in my opinion, is sensitive personal data like government identification, medical and banking records, and of course date of birth, address, etc. that can be used to identify you and in worse cases, steal your identity.

Such data is not being handled well enough, for the vast majority of cases. I'm lucky to live in a country/region that does it well (better than most), with laws protecting individuals.

But honestly idgaf if ad trackers can see on my digital footprint that I just bought a bicycle. I also enjoy services like Google Maps very much, because it works scarily well, and I can choose when I want to be tracked or not.

Tracking cookies have been a thing for literally decades.

It is most definitely opt-in for me. It popped up and said "would you like to enable this?", explaining what would be shared and why. It was not enabled automatically. That's opt-in if you ask me.

If that's what they want, they chose the wrong distro.

I don't necessarily disagree, but your analogy of inviting someone into your home is flawed. You did agree to them collecting some anonymous data just by using it, and the browser history usage is opt-in.

Their products are not free, they just don't cost money. If you don't agree with that policy, don't use their products. I would also add that this is their business model for most of their products (which are undeniably extremely popular, because they're good).

Maps, Search, Chrome, YouTube, etc are all really good products that you pay for by letting them use some of your data, but not the more sensitive parts, in my opinion.

I disagree that their "raw database" should be public. That seems like a terrible idea. I would much rather share my clicks and geolocation than pay for the service (I don't, but I would prefer that model).

I do however agree that data needs to be regulated, and that users solely own all their own data.

You should mention what part of the world you live in. Western/northern Europe is paradise for cyclists compared to USA, for example

I used to just check WineHQ and if it has Gold or above, you can definitely make it run