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by jimmaswell 1518 days ago
There is no problem to solve, the cookies can't hurt you and the website needs to stay afloat.
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To state the obvious, some people don't love the extensive profiles that are created of them.
Those people should be able to avoid the profiling, but any solution should be aimed at protecting those people, without impacting the 95% who don't care enough to give up convenience or pay for private services too much.
Maybe my view is warped (I'm from Germany) but 95% seems a tad high...
It might be. I actually have no idea how to assess the real number.

The Cisco survey(https://iapp.org/news/a/new-cisco-study-emphasizes-consumer-...) says 79% are willing to invest time or money to protect their privacy, but a lot less seem to actually do anything about it.

Almost everyone I know is on Facebook and Gmail, most seem to use Chrome, etc.

It seems to vary a lot with subculture. Programmers always seem to be more willing to sacrifice convenience, and people who watch porn seem to be more interested in privacy than most.

I suspect there's a pretty large segment that only cares in theory, at most, and only then just on principle because of the other people who have more interesting data.

Maybe not 95% but probably 90% of certain subsets at least.