Depending on your situation, most of your issues can be avoided by not owning a smartphone. It's extreme (by today's standards, at least), but it does work. I ditched my smartphone back in 2017 for a cheap flip phone. I can find spare parts on eBay easily. My car is older, so there is no SaaS crap in it. If I need to keep in touch with someone, we can use SMS, call each other or meet in real life. I use a Linux laptop for banking/browsing the web and I keep a physical GPS in my car in case of emergency.

and I agree with you. Privacy is pretty much gone already.

It was outlawed out of concerns it would make us less productive

The first four issues are not new. Desktop Linux users like myself had the same struggle with the Windows monopoly in the early 2000s.

I'm not overly worried about that. I stuck to my guns, and was rewarded for my patience with a large selection of free and open source apps that are often as good as if not better than what Windows users use.

Cars aren't going to get away with charging subscription fees for basic features like seat warmers. Cars aren't exactly cheap to begin with, there's a lot of uncontrolled competition in that space (as opposed to the controlled, illusory “competition” in web browsers), and e-bikes threaten to eat car makers' lunch.

I am, however, worried about banks requiring me to use a proprietary browser. That puts me in danger of my bank account being compromised. Worse, I'll have no way of knowing which other bank to take my business to, because they presumably won't check DRM until I try to log in, which only becomes possible after I've moved my money.

Dunno, I don't use shitty apps that aren't available in F-Droid and I'm all the better for it.

If it's a physical object, how can you turn one into 1000? How can it be both the alignment of magnetic domains on a spinning disk, or an area containing more or less electrons than normal, or a sequence of letters printed on a page? It can even be stored in meat if you memorize a sequence, or separated in space and time then reunited

Data isn't a physical object, it's any pattern that can be decoded to result in the same useful sequence. It's information.

At best, you can call it a property of a physical object

Here where I live is very hard privacy, school apps and governments are very intrusive and doesnt care for linux, custom roms for my model is so rare and to unlock oem is everything manual and mostly local sites are paywalled or useless, really thinking stop using html protocol lol

Yes, we need to pass laws that prevent companies from blocking access to their services on the basis of using privacy tools. Basically apps should be able to run on any customised client device and they should only legally able to say "no" if my session is clearly demonstrating malicious interactions.

We need better consumer protection laws.