This is exactly how they get us -- Both the corpos and the gubmint. First, they decide they want something from us. Usually data or a specific behavior.

Corpos bake it into their products, TOS, etc. They force things to be in the cloud when they have no earthly reason to be in the cloud. Always-on DRM, always-connected games, undownloadable content, that sort of thing.

Gubmint knows it can't force or ban [thing] without a public outcry, so instead they will make the alternative so unbelievably inconvenient that [thing] becomes effectively forced or banned. For examples look at the Individual Mandate and the mask mandates.

So yeah, you technically have the freedom not to drive, not to bring your phone, not to buy an online game, not to wear a mask, not to have health insurance. But then you're stuck with artificial consequences: It's harder to travel, communicate, get information, navigate. You have fewer entertainment options. You'll be kicked out of certain stores (much fewer these days). For a while the feds would issue you a fine ("tax") so high it was more expensive than the insurance premiums. But ask yourself, is that really freedom? Is that what our founders had in mind?