I think you’re modeling it wrong. Overtheorizing, if I may say.
You need to first judge an offering on its value, and then consider its costs. Among the costs there might be that it tries to trick you. There is nothing special about this particular cost. It might be big for, e.g., Instagram. Then you will naturally reach the conclusion that Instagram is not worth it.
I think the crucial insight is that most of us do not intuitively perceive Instagram as an actively malicious manipulator, because its attack vector is novel and not evolutionarily encountered. Generally, institutions and systems are much stronger now than they were in the past, but our intuitions disregard them. Another example is how people care so much about the object level fact that Facebook built a spying VPN, but not much at all about how Facebook is hoarding power through network effects.
I think you’re modeling it wrong. Overtheorizing, if I may say.
You need to first judge an offering on its value, and then consider its costs. Among the costs there might be that it tries to trick you. There is nothing special about this particular cost. It might be big for, e.g., Instagram. Then you will naturally reach the conclusion that Instagram is not worth it.
I think the crucial insight is that most of us do not intuitively perceive Instagram as an actively malicious manipulator, because its attack vector is novel and not evolutionarily encountered. Generally, institutions and systems are much stronger now than they were in the past, but our intuitions disregard them. Another example is how people care so much about the object level fact that Facebook built a spying VPN, but not much at all about how Facebook is hoarding power through network effects.