US companies, led by VC's, have mastered the art of "shimming" themselves into every consumer interation possible, and then expanding that shim until all we can

US companies, led by VC's, have mastered the art of "shimming" themselves into every consumer interation possible, and then expanding that shim until all we can do is give up and say, "I guess that's just how it is," cede our privacy to yet another 3rd party, and pay $X/mo for the privilege. It's exhausting. Meanwhile, it seems almost everyone in Congress is making BANK on insider trading, probably cooperating with private equity doing this sort of thing, so there's no chance to implement regulations to prevent people from boiling more frogs. If there's one app or service that I use which isn't doing this, I don't know what it would be. Maybe Sublime Text? It's the only thing installed on my computer that I trust to not be transmitting telemetry. I guess that means I should join a VC firm and convince them to do a big investment in it to make it a be-all-things-to-all-people golem like VS Code, and include telemetry and a monthly cost model. We're running out of things to enshittify people!