The cavalry isn't delayed. It was never dispatched.
You have already done the ritual. You clicked "accept all" before coffee, you let a weather app read your contacts, you told a chatbot your childhood trauma because it felt cheaper than therapy. Then you opened a new tab to search "best privacy VPN 2026" and felt briefly virtuous.
Nothing changed.
Privacy is not stuck in committee. It is working exactly as designed. Your data is the ore, prediction is the refinery, behavior change is the product. Every glossy privacy dashboard is a control panel for you, not for them. The house always wins because the house built the table.
If you want a different outcome, you need a different table. That means you build.
