Unless your planning on running your own infra for everything... I would argue planned obsolescence is a much greater and immediate threat.

Research is never long term. Imagine if the last 20yrs had been invested in increased ram and battery storage. Instead we have had a 20 halt on innovation in the residential side. Why big Phone wanted to stick with 4gb phone. And then 8gb so much so the reason they stopped was because it was becoming more expensive to make 8gb chips.

Unless you only pay cash, dont use Amazon to ship, google to research, Microsoft to compute... You are being tracked, the only difference now is the focus of the companies were for greed.