This is not useful as 90% of normies never had a bad experience about that stuff so they don‘t care. They know about all these points and see no reason to think about that at all as they think they are too unimportant.

I've kinda known this but not properly acted, except disabling cloud back up some 10yrs ago. I went with a safety first approach of saving to ext SD card (in my phone), that is then synced to my laptop (via syncthing) into an encrypted folder. I'm now thinking that's pretty private too. Unless the...

the cloud remembers what humans forget. stripping metadata before upload is the digital equivalent of knocking before entering.