What are you saying is the actual mechanism of causality for people making personal software choices based on "wanting" panopticon censorship? I don't think it'

What are you saying is the actual mechanism of causality for people making personal software choices based on "wanting" panopticon censorship? I don't think it's "I'll be a good citizen and prefer software that allows surveillance". Unless by "most of us" you mean everyone taking home bags of money working for the surveillance industry in Surveillance Valley? The way I see it, centralized surveillable services promise lucrative investment returns based on monetizing user data, which attracts capital from the everything bubble seeking anywhere to go, which pays for an overwhelming amount of advertising that fakes social proof. And now that users have been trained to wantonly trust web browsers and shy away from native software, and the surveillance industry business model has been proven out, the situation is quite sticky.