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Maybe this is a bit of a hardline stance, but at this point I'd argue that not running extensions like Ublock origin and umatrix is implicit consent to have all that data collected. Not a strongly-held opinion, but boy does it seem like a properly-informed person would use protection to interact online with how diseased the internet has become.

Mind, neither of those are perfect, but they're Pretty Damn Good and everyone should be running something similar at this point.



> is implicit consent

I fully acknowledge that I'm a hardliner on this issue, but I don't believe that there is any such thing as "implicit consent".

Consent must be intentional, uncoerced, and fully-informed. Otherwise, it's not consent at all.


Oh, we're on the same page there. It is unjust and amoral that "implicit consent" is assumed when collecting data, but that appears to be how things operate.

We're in the Faustian era of the internet, though. The only winning move is not to play.




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