Agreed. Though unfortunately the way we have it now is technically opt in, just through dark patterns or extortion.

Make an account? You are opting in via those T&C

Have an account and the T&C change to allow data sharing? Delete your account and deal with that pain and frustration or accept it.

Forgot you made an account? Well you agreed to be bound by the T&C that they changed to allow sharing even though you didn't know it happened.

They've made it so that legally you opted in in those dang documents that they make impossible to read. Super frustrating.

It's not difficult at all. The corporations pay lobbyists to influence this process.

They understand, they just know who their bosses are and it ain’t us.

Once upon a time, we were going to have a Do Not Track setting in our browsers...

probably because so many are now convinced that the whole internet would fail if there wasn't advertising revenue everywhere.

Do you want me to opt in to that view or opt out of the opposite one?