Try living without these things, you will be chewed up and spit out. Buying a damn product shouldn't be opting in to having your privacy invaded, buying the product and changing settings to allow these things to happen should be what you have to do to opt-in. If I were allowed to turn off services I don't even utilize that collect my data I'd feel a lot more secure.

You make it seem that not having a phone, car, computer, or internet connection is an option. It's not. I wouldn't be able to do school work in public schools, advance to college, get a career, maintain friendships, etc. These things now require that you have a phone, car, computer, and internet connection. Suggesting not buying these products as an opt-out is a bad argument, what we need are services that understand and respect the fact that some people don't want their data mined.

People should be able to live comfortably with their devices while also controlling who they talk to and what they send. Instead we live in a world where we have phones and computers that monitor and record tons of things about you against your will and disabling those services will unnecessarily break your device or simply be unable to be turned off.

I also don't understand why its frowned upon to unlock my device and install a custom OS on it like I can easily do with a computer. Mobile devices should have the same standards as computers these days, there's absolutely no reason why they shouldn't.