We normalized the idea that regulations on business that prevent them from springing us with shoddy products that harm us, or maliciously use our data to exploit us, are too onerous and anti-competitive, so let’s just let the corpos put some magic words in an EULA/TOS/Privacy Policy to allow them to caveat emptor us to death.

We could use a revitalization of the consumer rights movement from the grassroots, but it’s a real uphill battle and every year it gets harder.