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> what are the odds average person gets sufficiently annoyed by gvmt mandated apps and installs lineage?

Won't happen to any meaningful degree. IMO if technologists fail to sensitize public discourse against the emerging dangers of surveillance tech now contemporary western democracies are probably about to be "disrupted".

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I am willing to disagree. If the app becomes annoying ( and it may very be ) people may adapt rather quickly. My example is that of SIM locking in the old country. It was a somewhat technical process, but people quickly adapted to it and learned how to remove it. The perception was that removal of SIM lock was beneficial.

Naturally, I could be wrong ( and has been about cellphones for a while now ). And then, my mom could barely handle switch from Whatsapp to Signal.

edit: coffee didn't kick in yet. added barely before handle