They do what they have always done, gain control and shape it in their own interests, regardless of the cost to others. This is endemic to businesses itself. Business the the root cause of all market enshitification.

For who? Where? I’m what?

Do you even know the extent of things they know and what that information allows them to derive about you? They know the patterns of life of billions of people. You’re just a pattern to match with everyone else just like you.

Parents spend less time with their children than the state and culture does. Parents all work 8-10 hours a day, they can’t feasibly solve this through parenting, not without ensuring parents have the time and resources necessary to parent. That’s also not just to partner in the right directions, but to counter the efforts of billion dollar companies and governments who are all teaching children lessons that drive them in bad directions.

Parenting is not possible in the way it was in the past. Some kind of community parenting may work, but that’s an informed concept.

The impact that may have on navigating life seems significant. Have you even considered how that would actually work? Practically.

What can we do to stop this?

Capturing all media distribution.

You’re right, and it’s failure will be the excuse to deprive us all of more of our privacy and autonomy.