No. Opt-out means you have to affirmatively make the choice to not be tracked or whtatever.
A choice was still made.
That’s being needlessly pedantic and being opted-in clearly details what has happened.
I could not disagree more. You can't "opt-in" someone else because they're not opting in at all. I think this is an important and meaningful distinction that we should call out, particularly since we're seeing more companies being deceptive on this point and trying to trick people through this confusing language.
And yet the British data protection agency thinks you can via something called a soft opt-in.