Depends on who "we" is. A point that political advocates (privacy, open source, anything really) tend to forget is that politics isn't even on most people's rad

Depends on who "we" is. A point that political advocates (privacy, open source, anything really) tend to forget is that politics isn't even on most people's radar when making decisions about what widget to use. Doubly so when that political stance doesn't have any tangible impact on their lives. ("Google tracks you for ads!" "Okay, and?") The number of people willing to forego a smartphone because of data collection is statistically insignificant. Personally, I'm not bothered enough by Google's business plan to go through contortions, making my life more annoying just to avoid some nebulous, unrealistic dystopian hypothetical.