Maybe private relays, private groups/communities could increase privacy but still give you the opportunity to socialize with your friends.

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(with all due respect here is my response)

I don't think human beings can be reduced to percentages. I also don't think privacy means not being social.

I protect all facets of my privacy and at the same time I am totally social.

Using a VPN, encrypted services (email, text), and staying away from apps that are built to scrape and sell data rather than their apparent use (TEMU is a good example of this. It has been estimated that they lose 30 percent off each sale but they make bank on scraping phones for data and selling it) in no way inhibits my social life.

PS Internet "social" isn't real. Social human interactions are in person. Anything else is less real. A phone call lacks facial expressions, a video call misses the mark because there's no real human face to face presence, a text message is way too open to speculation and misunderstanding.

I'm out in the world talking to people: at the store, in a café, at a museum, at a market, at the gym, on a hike, in an art class.

A "life" online is an illusion.