You are blaming the victim. For one, smartphones are becoming indispensable to interact with society. Just the other day there was a submission on HN about rep

You are blaming the victim. For one, smartphones are becoming indispensable to interact with society. Just the other day there was a submission on HN about replacing passports with smartphone apps, and today we already experience the situation where banks mostly focus on smartphone apps. For another, the more this crap goes unchecked, the more companies will do it. It’s already hard to find TVs without smart connectivity, let alone at competitive prices. “Smart” internet-connected appliances are coming out all the time and replacing the perfectly fictional “dumb” ones. You’re acting like the parable of “they came for <group> and I did not speak”. You’re already having to perform inconvenient steps and ignoring the people who don’t have the technical chops or time for it. We should stave off these privacy invasions as soon as we can, not shrug our shoulders and reduce our options ever more until there is literally nothing else.