Public transport is nonexistent in several places here in Texas for example - you have to have a car (or know someone who does) to get to your job in the first place. But commuting puts wear and tear on the car, especially if you can't find work particularly close to where you live.
One might begin to wonder if there's more than mere correlation between those who adopt socially conservative beliefs and those who seem unable to paint their environment in anything other than such broad strokes...
Do you have a source to cite for "the approach that the vast majority of purchasers prefer"?
That seems pretty speculative.
The market can be manipulated or directed by more than simply consumer choice, e.g. by business incentives of product manufacturers.
The problem is that this wasn't the only way they were gathering this info, and that they misled consumers by allowing them to turn off a setting that supposedly stopped this kind of tracking, while still continuing to track due to a different setting defaulting to "on".
Definitely worse, but also the next logical step given that an ad company has achieved relative browser dominance and has such weight to throw around in defining web standards.
Moves like this were inevitable. Writing's been on the wall a while now too.
Neither is good, but that doesn't necessarily make the topic you're attempting to pivot to relevant in this situation.
Also, Cloudflare (provider of the external service you mention, assuming you're talking about DNS-over-HTTPS) definitely isn't Google. At least not yet.
While this is correct, surveillance in the physical call center wasn't physically taking place in these people's homes, which IMHO is the critical difference.
Having worked in a call center myself at one point, I'd say the primary difference is the directly-customer-facing nature of that work.
When a call comes in (and there are often a large number of simultaneous calls) someone has to be there at their desk to receive it - whereas with yours and my current gigs, the worst that'll happen is some production issue with a reasonable SLA.