[Scoundreller]

Gartner has predicted by 2038, the average American will spend 17 hours per day opting out of things they never opted into.

[hedora]

Do they predict what percentage of trackers this continuous coke-filled click-fest will actually disable?

[TeMPOraL]

They did not, because the number wasn't estimated by adding up predicted time per tracker or service, but by determining this is about the maximum the market can bear - i.e. a steady state of the system.

Curiously, Stratfor also predicted 60% chance of the US going to war with the EU before 2036, due to EU privacy regulation threatening to shut down the increasingly adtech-based US economy.

[thechao]

This serious analysis is stupider than the entire plot of Idiocracy.

[bmitc]

I can’t tell if that’s a real report or something from The Onion.