It honestly just sounds like you're mad at capitalism for setting conditions for success that harm the consumer. I agree, but you're awfully late to the party i

It honestly just sounds like you're mad at capitalism for setting conditions for success that harm the consumer. I agree, but you're awfully late to the party if only now you think it's "not cool". I think the better advice is to not stake your life on things you don't control. Technology can be built in a holistic and transparent way when people agree on it, but that's not what our economy says is smart. So naturally, the most successful businesses gravitate towards surveillance and advertising and lock-in. This was the basis of most cyberpunk fiction that I grew up on, exacerbating corporate control to it's logical conclusion. The idea that any of this is "cool" in the first place speaks to an unfortunate reality, that most of us will ignore dystopia if the design is pretty and the little logos all glow bright enough.