I hate this cope. The level of helplessness that the average Joe is convinced they have is unreal. This is easily the toughest obstacle to the growth of freedom tech.

Its so difficult too in that even if I convince others to use Signal, or Protonmail or other easy onboarding freedom software, they're still using proprietary spyware iOS or Windows, likely nullifying most of the benefits with keyloggers, metadata collection, push notification logging, etc.

The hill to get the average Joe to what we consider a reasonable level of data sovereignty seems insurmountable.