To me, actual freedom, understood as being free from unjust coercion, is more important than "user freedom", understood as having a wide range of services and goods to choose from.
In this case, the former is being attacked in order to achieve the latter.
I literally cannot use public parking in my city without an app. A ton of services are requiring app based 2FA for their use. Anyone without a smartphone that uses either Android or iOS is literally being left out of a huge chunk of the modern world.
“Own this or you’ll be relegated to the fringes of society” very much sounds like coercion to me.
Ah, yes, of course. Doing the slightest thing to reign in the worst abuses of trillion dollar companies is equivalent to completely abolishing private property. Thanks for the insight.
In this case, the former is being attacked in order to achieve the latter.