[getoffmyyawn]

To me it really seems like it is too late.

I have the strong impression that the vast majority of people simply do not care and mostly don't even want to know.

Most of the people I know are in this group. When they ask why I won't install the latest app they are playing with, they often cut me off before I even finish explaining. They seriously don't care about privacy, lock-in, loss of access to resources, right to repair, etc.

Personally, I'm investing as much time as I can in learning the alternatives: Gemini, Fediverse apps, Linux phones, etc. That combined with having a "mainstream" laptop that is used only for banking and similar life critical services that has nothing else installed and otherwise stays turned off.

[mandmandam]

> They seriously don't care about privacy, lock-in, loss of access to resources, right to repair, etc.

They care even less about this stuff than they do about plastic pollution, or systemic inequality and racism, or PFAS contaminating the world's water, or pesticides and runoff decimating biospheres. They don't care about corruption at the highest levels of government and justice, black sites and torture, or illegal wars for profit.

It's impossible to care about everything that's going on. It's unreasonable to expect people to care or even know about everything, even if politics wasn't a wrestling show and corporate news wasn't enraging entertainment.

And, most citizens are two paychecks away from destitution.

Lobbyists, on the other hand, have full access to decision makers and a truck or two of cash, determined to make concrete specific changes.

This is by design, and Google just take advantage of it the same way every other company does. Blaming 'people' for this is blaming the victim.

[Aeolun]

If I’m marginally informed there is no reason other people shouldn’t be.

If they already have the phone all the information in the world is literally at their fingertips.