I believe that you are both correct. 8 to 10 years ago I realized how much data these companies and governments gather about me, and it scared the shit out of me. I was not aware before that, so I had Alexas all over my house, smart devices, a Samsung SmartThings, the works.

Then my slow walk to privacy started. My home is fully automated now, down to the sprinklers, but it's all via Home Assistant, frigate for my cameras (inside home assistant), not one of my IoT devices has access to the internet, they live in an isolated VLAN, and I haven't had any mainstream social network account or WhatsApp for over 8 years now.

The fact is that a lot people don't care because they don't know, like me back then, but finally knowing is what jump-started this path.

I do agree that there's no helping someone that doesn't want help, that's a hard fact, but if we do move this information around, we stand to "cure a few normies" along the way.

You cant help people who dont want or care for the help.

most are just intentionally made ignorant of why they should care and will start to care once informed of how it impacts them personally.

they're like mini-republicans in that respect -- they dgaf until it impacts them personally.

I mean, you can -- that's what consumer protection regulations are for. It's why people can't sell themselves into slavery even I'd they're stupid enough to want to, for example.

We could do things like, say, entirely outlawing closed-source software in smart home tech, if our government weren't usurped by oligarchs.