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by corney91 1205 days ago
The difference in your analogy is you know what your friend is doing. If you went to your friend's house and they secretly spied on you, you'd surely think less of them when/if you found out.
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That doesn't mean it makes sense to enforce ridiculous regulation on all houses to catch that one friend in ten million.
The number of popular websites that now notify that they're tracking you across the Internet is more than 1 in 10 million. They don't have to show any banner if they're not tracking you.