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by malandrew 5188 days ago
These aren't the views of normal users. You may not be 99% percentile when it comes to privacy awareness, but given your answer, you are among the 95%+ percentile for sure.

normal users don't know or care about monetization plans. they don't know a privacy policy has been copy/pasted. In fact, they won't read it. They won't go far enough to check if the business is in the EU or US. Most normal users of your service aren't in the EU, unless your service is targeting mainly people in the EU. Most people don't care who is behind a company and won't investigate this. Normal users won't look far enough to find canned statements about privacy on your site. Normal users won't try to see what a company stores about them. Normal users don't know or care about metrics or know about targeted advertising.

Imagine the average internet user. By definition 49.9% of all internet users are less aware and less capable than that person. Remember this. It keeps perspective grounded in reality.