We are not here by accident. Those are symptoms of a public that doesn't care. We have been explaining the consequences of each choice for techs during the last 20 years. I've had the talk with my friends and familly many times. Very patiently. Very nicely.

Nobody cares. It's just an annoyance for them.

And it requires an enormous more amounr of energy to live your live this way than not caring. Even more if you gotta explain.

And so here we are.

Most people believe they are good and conforming. They don't believe anything would happen to them because of what Apple does and they don't want to be seen as those defending abusers right to privacy.

Yes, as a society we are giving up privacy for convenience.

How would the public demonstrate caring about this?

Acting concerned in discussions would be a start. Choosing what services to use, what product to buy, what media to consume, not just because that's the easiest. Limit their involvment in this, even professionnally, if they can.

It doesn't need to be perfect. People have constraints, and life is hard.

But politicians and busines people don't care about being good or bad. They just follow the wind.

Now being gay is trendy, well, they are pro gay.

More people care about organic, they sell organic.

Just caring a little, demonstarting a little that we disaprove and want something else orient their decisions. Because their decisions are not driven by moral, it's just business.

Also, even if you don't do any of this, and I can believe I have to even state this, not teasing or shaming those who do would be an improvement.

Voting with their wallets and a lot of leg-stomping

Android ROMs like GrapheneOS do not spy on you, verifiably.

Verifiably? Are people still swapping ROMs on XDA developers like its 1990? Are folks still having to dump binary blobs from devices to get the things to work with non-stock ROMs? Are some people still relying on jailbreaking tools they have to “just trust”? Does the modem on all these SOCs still run it’s own network facing machine with full RAM access?

Things might be better, but it’s not all roses.

It's non-trivial to unlock, root, and install a custom ROM - unless you are technical, very few people are going to be able to do this.

Also, it's been several years since I used a custom ROM, but I thought rooted devices were not permitted to use the official Google Play Store? (happy to be corrected if I've got this point wrong!)

Rooting and installing a custom ROM are two independent things, you don't need one to have the other.

Rooted devices can use the official Play Store yes, though most people use Aurora Store to access the Play Store because they tend to remove Google Play Services from their phones as well.

A good first step, but that the public won't take. We've seen it with linux on the desktop already.

Linux on the desktop is pretty viable now, but yeah, still hard to convince the public without marketing shenanigans.

There's puri.sm, pinephone, fairphone with /e/.

There are multiple open source Android variants. You can use LineageOS with no Google services.

A Pixel with CalyxOS is a viable option in my experience.