Why? Not philosophically why but genuinely why? The consumer isn't less for their choice, if they saw people suffering damage they found concerning they'd actually be hesitant. And at the same time it's not like equivalent open solutions are going to emerge, we've had decades of cyber-activist products meant to 'empower' users by providing similar functionality to the commercial products of their time and they almost never catch on and if they do they reach a critical mass where they just evolve into data hungry companies themselves. If users would rather pay with data than money maybe the right solution is just to make sure there's simply an opt-in point at all rather than implementing some pointless thicket of UI weeds for them to wade through just to make their device do what they want.
