[tchock23]

Why not? As a consumer if I don't consent I simply don't use the service. Is it my right to use Google?

[solarkraft]

Would you seriously, actually ever stop to use Google? They have a gigantic monopoly on so many things.

[tchock23]

I wouldn’t, but if anyone thinks their privacy violations are so egregious then they should refrain from using their services. No one is forcing them to use the service.

[tchock23]

To the person that downvoted this - anyone can use DuckDuckGo, Apple Map, Dropbox, Airtable, any one of hundreds of email service providers, etc to avoid Google. It’s actually fairly easy to avoid.

[icebraining]

I answered in another post of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17163342