I take issue with your characterization as "robbing". The consumer surveillance industry exploits security vulnerabilities in browsers and OSes (including ones

I take issue with your characterization as "robbing". The consumer surveillance industry exploits security vulnerabilities in browsers and OSes (including ones they themselves put there), and then leverages the proceeds into minor attacks on users that net a few pennies at a time. Fixing the security vulnerabilities isn't "robbing" these companies, rather it's merely putting things right and preventing them from being able to take what they have been taking. Furthermore, that the surveillance industry has been normalized and even held up as an exemplar of innovation just illustrates the extent of the rot.