Yeah, sure. How long is that policy gonna last? How does a user even know that that checkbox does anything?
Once you’ve decided to break a social contract it’s not like you can slap a bandaid on it and it’s all okay now.
> I hope you try to build a business sometimes and open up your perspectives that maybe just maybe you don't have all the answers.
People were building successful businesses long before the Internet.
People in this case are likely extrapolating based on how user data is harvested in the industry at large. So there is bound to be (very likely) some characterization that is unfair to you.
Given modern data aggregation, really data vacuuming, and that software is opaque, it can be really hard to trust anyone with any aggregation of data. They say that they pseudonymize properly. The proof? Trust them bro. Then read yet another news article about how some data aggregation was either sloppily leaked or just a front for selling data.
A natural response to opaque practices by people you don’t trust is a hardline no.