But if you imagine a typical consumer, not a tech nerd, I think "smartphone and bluetooth" is by far preferable to your 4-step process.

If we are going for solutions where your individual decision makes no impact on the system in place, then let's go big: ditch youtube and host your content on one of the alternatives.

The second chapter was very disappointing and lost the intrigue I had built from the first.

I'm not entirely sure this is different than "security by contract", except the contracts get bigger and have more technology around them?

https://github.com/cisagov/dotgov-data/compare/57e66bcb0fccc...

I think what's left out though is that this is the experience of those who are really interested and for whom "it's not satisfying" to stay there.

As tech has turned into a money-maker, people aren't doing it for the satisfaction, they are doing it for the money. That appears to cause more corner cutting and less learning what's underneath instead of just doing the quickest fix that SO/LLM/whatever gives you.

On my journey there I met a fellow called "Simeon" and people would call him "Tim"...

An interesting thing to look at is something called the "Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel": for every gallon that the US delivers to a Forward Operating Base, they spend something like 6-20 gal getting it there.

The point is that you need to move insane amounts of stuff to fight a war effectively. The actual fighting is just the tip of an iceberg of logistics.

> everyone can sell it to make a living just doing whatever they are doing everyday

These are professional networks with a ton of capital thrown behind them. They have pretty decent algorithms, heuristics, etc; and you don't make money (compared to the other data correlation teams) if you do simple dumb stuff. I'm certain they take into account those trying to be privacy-conscious, if only to increase their match rates to be competitive.