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Have we accepted the popups? The tracking agencies have clearly set the goal to make the user experience as bad as possible if you want to deny the prompts.

As far as I'm concerned, we should just blanket ban these trackers all together. The industry has been given the chance to play nicely and to care about the people they're collecting data from, and they chose war on consent.

Fuck it, make the DNT header a legally binding way to deny consent.

I consider every company with these invasive popups to be antisocial. Not enough people care enough for the practice to disappear, but I definitely don't just accept it. I accept the simple prompts that go yes/no/specify, with the yes and no equally easy to use, but that's the best you'll get from me.

Any website claiming that trackers have "legitimate interest" is made by absolute assholes.




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