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Nope. The websites do this, but its inconsequential. Every single piece of literature you hear about how collecting data is bad fails to mention any real world results of this. And no, things like Cambridge Analytica do not count, unless you want to make the claim that people are so easily influenced by online media that they cannot be trusted with their free will and MUST be subjected to strictly controlled media consumption. The real problem is that there was some idea planted in peoples heads that we should care about privacy. Even worse, a lot of people in the tech world adopted this, without understanding what privacy even is. In reality, people dgaf about privacy. Of course, they say they do, because its feels good to virtue signal. But for every day things, everyone buys phones and uses apps that track you everywhere and build models, stores their personal data in the cloud, and pretty much always click accept on all the website banners, because when there is nobody around to virtue signal to about privacy, the reward is not there, but the drawback is degraded experience. But of course anything ideologic like this can be used to win elections, and hence GDPR, which exists only as a means for politicians to gain political power through pretending to care about some aspect of peoples lives. For the record, privacy = control of the data that you put out, which means you have to go pretty in depth tech wise to set this up if you want full privacy (for example, rooted Android phone with no google apps, removing or firewalling services that phone home). And its fine to accept some level of degraded privacy for a better user experience, but your standard shouldn't be the standard for everyone. |