[jokethrowaway]

Privacy advocates need an excuse to advocate for privacy and impose more regulations for the Common Good.

Then we end up with crap like the cookie banner - which completely ruined the internet for me.

There is not a day I don't have to close one of those and browser extensions to block them are nowhere as good as blocking ads. Not to mention, accepting all the cookies is one click, while rejecting them either require 1 minute of thinking or browsing through popups and menus.

The fact that 99% of the people don't care is over their head. If people cared they would be using duckduckgo.

Funnily enough, I use duckduckgo and I think it's a great Google replacement - but I don't care about being tracked, I just appreciate the features (especially code snippets in search)