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Nobody can know everything, or have the time to care about stuff that's not of major interest to them.
A stay-at-home parent with 6 adopted kids, or someone who just started a new furniture business, or a granpa who still drives a truck from 1950's, simply don't have the time to learn and understand every little aspect of modern technology, never mind the privacy implications or such.
Which is fine, problem is that the corpos then take advantage of the people. That's what it is, not catering to them, taking advantage. Take the typical T&C one needs you neednto "agree" on to use the damn phone you just bought - is that designed to be useful to the user? Is that catering? No, it's about stripping every bit of money, privacy and data legally and illegally possible while providing just enough service that the user is incentivized to stay on the chains and to buy more shit.
And if you don't wanna, you just get punished or at least inconvenienced. This Cloudflare and other captcha shit - does it actually "check the security"? Bullshit, but if you come with a Chrome browser logged in to your Google and MS accounts like a good little user, you don't get this kind of inconvenience.