I mean, it's the downfall of all facile answers, isn't it? "If you aren't the customer, you're the product" falls down when closed-source companies turn around

I mean, it's the downfall of all facile answers, isn't it? "If you aren't the customer, you're the product" falls down when closed-source companies turn around and sell their smaller customers to their bigger customers, and the idea that you can't dictate terms to someone you're not paying falls down when someone debunks the contrapositive by saying no to a paying client. There's no silver bullet to make software always do what you want, so why should there be a silver bullet to always make humans always comply?