I like seeing people offering solutions against mass surveillance.
What I want to suggest is that you drop the requests you send to 3rd party services like Google. If somebody makes money off of collecting as much data about us as they can, it's Google, Facebook, etc. So, letting them track your users is a contradiction.
The real problem is: This additional freedom you can buy with money means less freedom for somebody else.
Inequality (wealth-based) means nothing else than domination. If you are richer, then you dominate the poorer people. And richer countries dominate poorer countries.
This is the most basic and fundamental injustice [0] we seem to accept in our Western culture. Because we are those who dominate.
[0] If you remember that we keep telling ourselves the nice little story how every life has the exact same value.
> “I won’t call him a hero, but he’s sure as hell no traitor.”
No hero? What does it take for you then?
Actually, he's not a hero, he's more like Jesus of our times, giving away his (perfect) life for us (who - of course - don't even appreciate his sacrifice, let alone act).
Also, how can you claim to have a secure app when it runs on a closed-source operating system? (Even more, we know about Microsoft handing over security holes to the NSA - why would Apple or Google not do the same?).
It's like saying "this heat is really cold". In other words: a contradiction in itself.
Only open-source apps on open-source operating systems can start making claims about security and trustworthiness.
It's what psychopaths usually say to their victims. If you hear it (or think you're hearing it), the person/organization you have in front of you is of psychopathic nature (it should be stopped at all costs).
Other translation: If we let them rape us, then we deserve it.
Don't fight it. Just let it take over. Stop struggling. Once you'll have stopped struggling, it won't hurt anymore. You won't feel any difference anymore. And it will be like it was never different.
What I want to suggest is that you drop the requests you send to 3rd party services like Google. If somebody makes money off of collecting as much data about us as they can, it's Google, Facebook, etc. So, letting them track your users is a contradiction.