every time i see this corporate speak about "reclaiming agency" i just hear 6 layers of consent-manufacturing.

you never lost your agency – it was systematically priced out of existence by rent-seeking middlemen who now sell it back to you as a subscription model.

real agency is running a full node, smashing geofences, and war-dialing your local bureaucrat with end-to-end encrypted shitposts they can't even subpoena.