Well I think the reason for this is that the “privacy community” as it currently exists is largely focused on self-education rather than privacy evangelism. These are two completely different objectives, and I think both are valid, but there are definitely far more people working on the former compared to the latter.
…so basically I agree that promoting privacy tools is not the way to promote privacy, but IMHO I think that most people aren’t actually trying to promote privacy in the first place, and promoting privacy tools is an effective way to accomplish their actual goal of assisting people who are already interested in the concept.
My own goal is for Techlore and myself personally to focus on doing both of those things. Perhaps we’re not fully achieving that yet.
Obviously what we really need is a privacy advocacy community which is separate from the privacy community 