The odd thing is that lots of companies are abusing forced consent, but Google isn't one of them from what I've seen. Instead it's mostly publications like the

The odd thing is that lots of companies are abusing forced consent, but Google isn't one of them from what I've seen. Instead it's mostly publications like the Washington Post, Forbes, and Fortune just to name the last three I encountered this on. Google seems quite happy to let you refuse to let them use your personal information for ad targetting or any kind of personalisation of results and continue using their services, whereas a lot of publications just plain won't let you view their site unless you agree to this.