> The same reason that so many of them continue working for companies that blatantly violate principles they claim are important to them (privacy, open-source, anti-advertising, etc.):

You're trying to paint people as hypocrites, where a more simple explanation is that maybe most of users even here on HN are not as concerned with the problem as you are. Vocal minority and all that.

> willing to impact their own comfort or convenience to truly follow them.

*method of survival.

You can "stand up for your principles", or you can not be an ideologue, survive, and live to fight another day making progress and positive change along the way. Full stop boycott stops nothing. Changing from within is the most effective. Instead of posting shame-inducing posts like this, labeling people and assuming the worst, try assuming the best, encourage them to take actions to increase privacy and increase security. I work in that field, and when my own principles are violated, I speak out. I guarantee that changes more than people shaming others on social media. Advertising and Data collection have about as much as a chance of stopping as world governments agreeing to stop producing bullets, so let's try to make it as ethical as we can.

You mean like we make visible progress in climate change because everyone suddenly decided to stop using meat, even though they get constantly bombarded with advertising telling them not to? Oh wait, we don't actually!