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by figassis 402 days ago
Would not work, you’d end up with hundreds of such platforms (because why not, free market) and some would even exist for the sole purpose of inferring your consent from multiple other platforms (that would sell access) and it would then become so opaque that you would have no way of actually confirming which choices you made.

I understood as a SWE that the perfect solutions we often conjure never work as expected in the real world because we do not understand basic human nature and also how society as exists today works, including many many perverse incentives.