[getoffmyyawn]

To me it really seems like it is too late.

I have the strong impression that the vast majority of people simply do not care and mostly don't even want to know.

Most of the people I know are in this group. When they ask why I won't install the latest app they are playing with, they often cut me off before I even finish explaining. They seriously don't care about privacy, lock-in, loss of access to resources, right to repair, etc.

Personally, I'm investing as much time as I can in learning the alternatives: Gemini, Fediverse apps, Linux phones, etc. That combined with having a "mainstream" laptop that is used only for banking and similar life critical services that has nothing else installed and otherwise stays turned off.

[mandmandam]

> They seriously don't care about privacy, lock-in, loss of access to resources, right to repair, etc.

They care even less about this stuff than they do about plastic pollution, or systemic inequality and racism, or PFAS contaminating the world's water, or pesticides and runoff decimating biospheres. They don't care about corruption at the highest levels of government and justice, black sites and torture, or illegal wars for profit.

It's impossible to care about everything that's going on. It's unreasonable to expect people to care or even know about everything, even if politics wasn't a wrestling show and corporate news wasn't enraging entertainment.

And, most citizens are two paychecks away from destitution.

Lobbyists, on the other hand, have full access to decision makers and a truck or two of cash, determined to make concrete specific changes.

This is by design, and Google just take advantage of it the same way every other company does. Blaming 'people' for this is blaming the victim.

[Aeolun]

If I’m marginally informed there is no reason other people shouldn’t be.

If they already have the phone all the information in the world is literally at their fingertips.

[mandmandam]

> If I’m marginally informed there is no reason other people shouldn’t be.

That's not actually true though. That just shows a lack of empathy on your part.

> If they already have the phone all the information in the world is literally at their fingertips.

While that's sort of true, there's a mountain of propaganda and bullshit to wade through, with thin seams of truth. The education system doesn't prepare people for this, nor does our media, nor do our politicians or corporations.

The wealthy who profit on our ignorance like things this way, and (hire people to) work very hard to keep things that way. So again, blaming the victim is missing the point.

[BonitaPersona]

There are plenty of issues you're not marginally informed and actively acting on. You're not judging yourself poorly for being uninformed and non-proactive on those topics, specifically because you're not aware or interested in them.

You can currently argue that the topics you're marginally informed are "more important" than the ones you're not, but how would you honestly know? Can it be objectivelly substantiated?

If you just see what happens in reality, it is that different people is focusing on different issues, oftentimes pushing for different or even opposing goals, and everybody believing their focus is more important than the others.

Also, you get a lot of people without any focus outside their physical scope, living perfectly fulfilling lives, which are the ones your parent poster refers as the "victims" being "blamed".