No, Management completely understands.

Closed source software/hardware is a data exfiltration device first, and the thing they're sold for secondarily.

TVs, Blurays, set top boxes, MS Windows.. All of them are the same.

All these companies make their money as 'feeders' to the advertising industry, they just sell a different device to consumers in order to achieve it.

Selling devices to consumers is a solved problem. The problem we're currently trying optimise solutions for is selling consumers to the advertising companies.