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by pornel 1207 days ago
Thank Google and other adtech for lobbying and fighting to keep tracking legal.

The popups are malicious compliance. They want you to hate the popups, so that you will turn against privacy laws, and fully submit to the unimpeded surveillance business.

And it’s working: people are installing “I don’t care about cookies” extension that agrees to data collection, deanonimization, profiling, and sale of this data.