For now. Once this settles in they will change the terms again, with no opt-out option.

The privacy policy references the privacy center for the conditions. They don't actually need to change the terms to retain and use data within the 5 year window. They can update the privacy center instead.

I don't really worry about them for products I don't use, though.

The opposite happens. You make the decision to reject or leave that service, and then you no longer have to think about that thing any more.

> pointless future things that aren't happening yet

I remember all those things that wouldn't happen since the 90s and which definitely ended up happening starting with all that crap from Microsoft. It's not cyberpunk anymore, it's real life.

In the late 00s a few friends sent me “connect with me on Facebook” messages. I thought “this looks suspicious, I don’t want to, but it seems all my friends are communicsting here now…”. So I joined, and in 10years everything I worried could happen with FB did, and much much worse.

So, I’ll trust my gut more on this one.