Ask HN: Do users give up privacy due to lack of care or due to lack of option?

I'm trying to be more social with distant coworkers and acquaintances, so I tried installing a messaging app. All of them (WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, Signal) require full and unrestricted access to all my contacts to work. Most of you already know the privacy implications this type of metadata has. I'm simply not willing to give them access, at least not on my main device.

I think a good understanding of the mentality of the crowd regarding this topic is also pretty important from a developers perspective.

So this got me wondering, don't users care at all about that stuff? Is it because they don't understand the tradeoffs? Is it because they understand the tradeoffs but don't care? Or are they forced into it like I am?

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