Let's help each other fight this Brave New World

Complain about it, try to understand the reasons for it, and think up methods of combating it.

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Hardware vendors will make this impossible until small fabs are cheap enough, but I'm not sure whether this is even possible since fabs are the incarnation of economy of scale.

How fucked are phone-related protocols? It's basically impossible to write a sane web browser because the protocols there are distilled lunacy. Would phones face something similar?