I agree that shiny new things are often traps, which then normalize bad developments across an industry. But I also think a lot of the privacy/autonomy shift wa

I agree that shiny new things are often traps, which then normalize bad developments across an industry. But I also think a lot of the privacy/autonomy shift was really a shift to a wider gamut of non-technical people using technology, and would have happened regardless of the new form factor. Also the change wasn't led by mobile, but rather it was web 2.0 that really kicked off the trend of centrally controlled software.