This is true. It’s a difficult balancing act. There are legitimate use cases and features built around tracking, etc but it comes with trade offs.

I’m an advocate for knowing your threat model and compartmentalization of your activity. I don’t mind Amazon knowing I like cats, but might not want them knowing I am pro-gun for instance.

I use both Telegram and Threema for the same reason. Telegram is a very nice app, but I don’t say anything there I’m worried about coming out. There are things like Threema and SimpleX for that.