I wanted to ask for long time this question, Why does this keeps happening?

Apple, Kagi, Vivaldi, news companies and even Google.

I started seeing a good amount of people who stopped caring about consumer rights/freedom and started to think and advocate for companies.

Even in non-brands cases, a lot of people buy the product with the highest price, because they think that it has a higher quality despite the fact that there is no necessary correlation between both.

How do I know that? I know a shop that buy cheap products and sell them with very expensive price tag, to my surprise they are making insane profits.

What is happening?