Thank you for saying this. I sometimes feel like I'm taking crazy pills when people bring up arguments about how users don't care about privacy, yet when polled, polls tend to show that they care very much about it but are just helpless to do anything about it. [1]
I have to laugh at GitHub coming to this conclusion. About 80% of the time when I follow a link to GitHub, there's a list of files and absolutely no explanation of what the project is or why one would be interested in downloading or contributing to it. Sometimes there's a link to something called "markup" or "markdown" that sometimes has a short description that vaguely describes the project. But that's often missing or cryptic, too.
[1] http://boingboing.net/2015/06/08/internet-users-care-about-t...