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Yes, I wanted legislation that requires companies to ask for consent before abusing my personal information. I still want it.

In the same vein, I want legislation that prohibits drunk driving and I don't get upset with the number of hours it takes to administer sobriety tests.

It should have been designed in a way that doesn't allow such malicious compliance, but this is still an improvement

Why not simply ban it then? Why the song and dance with "consent forms" when it's well understood that most people will just click "OK" to get the popup out of their face and get on with what they wanted to do?

I still want this