[croes]

Nitpicking: There is no being opted-in by default, that‘s opt-out

[marshray]

Hmm. I read a semantic difference between "opt-out" and "being opted-in by default".

The first denotes an abstract policy, the second an action that has been done to you in which you were a passive participant. And this is all about our lack of agency.

You may prefer that we speak of abstract policies. But to say "there is no" about an otherwise sensible phrase implies that you think that we have agreed to stay within some fixed set of terminology. I didn't think that we had.

[croes]

If you hadn’t the option to go in it is not opt-in.

If so put you in by default but you have the option to go out it’s opt-put

So this is either opt-out or not a option at all

[marshray]

The law of the excluded middle does not create semantic problems for the phrase "being opted-in by default".

Human language does not work like that.

[croes]

There is no excluded middle.

You have to turn it on = Opt-In

You have to turn it off = Opt-Out

Just because the option was added later on doesn’t change that.

Or tell me what’s the difference for me between Opted-In by default and Opt-Out