Then why do they have a lock on their phone? Their house? Why do they wear pants? They already won’t give their phone number or email address to anyone who asks. They already practice privacy.
It’s not about having something to hide, it’s about protecting what you share against misuse. Think identity theft.
Or really any media that gives a warped view of reality. Movies glorifying drug use, eating disorders, stuff like that. I’m sure you’ve heard about people getting hurt from tiktok “challenges”. Kids are fucking stupid.
Even with the popular ones, there’s a risk of unrecoverable loss. They don’t test your backups, so if there’s undetected corruption, they may not be restorable.
Having your own domain would solve most of your complaints about email. It’s valid, controlled by you, filtered for spam however you desire, and you can have as many addresses on that domain as you want, without aliasing, and they’ll still all go to you.
That they haven’t done, in my experience. I deleted Snapchat a while ago, but I don’t recall it prompting me repeatedly to enable location. I’m still on Instagram now, and I’ve had the location permission off probably forever, and I’ve never noticed it asking for it.
https://archive.is/rYiwP
Doesn’t seem all that significant to me. If you don’t want then to have your event info, don’t give it to them.