I have neither time, resources nor know-how to like go all out on data privacy. But I try doing things like using Proton for Mail, browsing with DuckDuckGo or Ecosia, messaging on Signal instead of WhatsApp, etc.
But I’m having a hard time responding to people who say “why do you do that, it’s completely pointless since companies like Google have all of our data anyways unless we go all out, and nobody has time for all the effort that takes”.
You can already make them agree on the fact that if less companies have their datas, they have less risk to see them stolen and misused by hackers…
So that they may begin to feel the=r datas worthy to be protected.
Just as example of what datas may be used for, a french company got a few million euros stolen because an employee (and the boss) had let enough datas online so that hackers could pretend to be the boss and need a big amoult of money sent asap to a fiscal paradise account ; for corruption needed to maintaining the company and therefore the jobs…