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by leononame 820 days ago
How does it show that? Most people I know are annoyed by this and click on "reject" (if they can find it), but for a lot of non-technical people these banners are just a given because they don't even understand the problem. Doesn't mean they don't care
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joenot443 820 days ago
The close to million users now on https://www.stilldontcareaboutcookies.com/ suggests that there's a pretty sizable amount of people that care less about the philosophy of European data laws and more about just getting on with their day.
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ziddoap 820 days ago
>pretty sizable amount of people that care less about the philosophy

How does it show that?

It shows that they prefer to get on with their day over clicking cookie banners. It says nothing about whether they agree with the philosophy of the GDPR.

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poszlem 820 days ago
How many "normies" do you know that stopped visiting websites that track them? I don't know anybody who isn't in my tech bubble who cares, and very few normies who would rather pay money than to give access to their data.
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leononame 820 days ago
None. That doesn't mean they don't care. As I said, most people I know are annoyed by this but take these banners and tracking as a given because they don't understand enough about technology and see them everywhere. And let's be honest here, if you were to stop visiting sites that track you, you could just stop using more or less the whole internet. It's not about stopping to use these sites, it's about stopping those sites from tracking you, which almost everyone I talk to is ok with. The only people I see that defend the amount of tracking happening on the web are commenters online (here, on reddit, etc.). That leads me to believe it's mostly corporate accounts.

To the point: Not using a site is not the point of it. Insert "yet you participate in society" meme

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boo-ga-ga 820 days ago
Apple do not track alert resulted in many people saying they don't want it. And of course, had impact on Meta's business. So if websites presented cookie banners in a neutral way without dark patterns to make Reject difficult, "normies" would reject these, I'm sure.
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oneeyedpigeon 820 days ago
> if they can find it

If it even exists!

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