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This is under a post about elected representatives quite literally doing their jobs and suing corporations for doing this.
They might be couching it in language about it all being because of the "Chinese Communist Party surveilling Americans", but they're still trying to stop the practice.
It's good when users can protect themselves. It's easy to forget that these companies design their products specifically to make people set them up how the manufacturer wants, and not all of them will even work without being connected to the internet.
The average person is not technically literate whatsoever. You're telling people to take personal responsibility for their privacy when they barely know how any technology works, and are surrounded by corporations who's budgets go towards finding new ways to convince people to give up their privacy in the most effective ways.