To be fair, most people understand that risk. It’s just it is very convenient in a lot of scenarios and some businesses might have not even started without it. Privacy is not that big of a concern for a big chunk of people. And they’re basically voting with their wallets.
"Voting with their wallets", where all the choices are picked by entities hostile to consumer privacy and autonomy, and then they mislead you about those choices.
People who bought LG (and now most other, now "smart") TVs did not in any meaningful way "vote" to be spied on and support DRM - simply all the TVs in a store would spy and show ads, and not disclose any of it at time of sale.
Well, it shows how it’s not the biggest issue for an average customer, as it, in theory, can make the TV cheaper. If people cared about absence of ads that much, all social media would not be ad-ridden since people would stop using it.
