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Not if you control the updates.
But to do that you have to have an absolute zero-tolerance policy for proprietary tyrant devices. Only Linux (or other Free Software) PCs. Only Graphene, Lineage, or similar on your phone. No new TVs, no new cars. No "smart" devices unless they've been flashed with ESPHome or Tasmota and only connect to Home Assistant. OpenWRT or OpnSense on your router.
Basically, you need to be a skilled IT person and willing to devote time for it all. But it can be done, with difficulty.
It doesn't need to be black & white either. For absolute privacy, sure, it is a PITA to get everything running, but you don't need to go all in to reduce your footprint on the internet. Moving email out of gmail is a start. Signal on the side of whatsapp is a step forward. Bazzite instead of Windows on your old gaming rig is a pretty decent leap. And so on.
And self hosting is getting more and more feasible. Home Assistant is something you can just buy and plug in to start moving from Alexa to FOSS variant. Immich is fairly easy to get running to move from Google Photos / iCloud to your own devices (just remember backups).
And even if you want to just consume services, there's other options than just Google/Microsoft/Apple around. Every small step counts and affects on what data "they" have on you to sell.
Sure, but you can probably get 80% of the way there a lot easier. Getting to 100% is hard AF though.