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I respect EFF for fighting the good fight. And its direly needed.

But, having spent a couple of years in the privacy space. People choose convenience over privacy 10/10 times. No amount of cookie banners, privacy notices and user consent are going to change that. There are so many cases of data abuse by EVs, Governments, etc. once you dig a little deeper than the surface

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Oh yeah. Regimes also figured this out. Make the preferred outcome the most convenient, delay or hide the negative feedback, and there we go, please choose the system on their own volition.

It’s because companies deliberately make the privacy option constant friction. When the options are “yes” and “ask me again repeatedly” it’s not surprising people eventually give up and just say yes to everything.

It needs to be part of the law that companies are simply not allowed to abuse your data like they are currently. The GDPR was a good start, but it needs to keep going much further.

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