But it doesn't work now. Not when everyone started using cellphones.
These arguments from past habits are silly. There was a life before reading and writing too. It also did work very well. But we don't live in that time anymore.
If you care, yes. Just don't use. If no one would use it, companies would be forced to change. As this scandals don't seem to affect them, loosing money would.
So would serious repercussions from the FTC and that doesn't require hoping millions of people who haven't cared at all for decades will suddenly care enough to change where they buy their toys from.