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> 338 clicks taught me a very important lesson. Whenever someone says: "We care about your privacy." you know they don’t care about you at all. It’s just decept

> 338 clicks taught me a very important lesson. Whenever someone says: "We care about your privacy." you know they don’t care about you at all. It’s just deception Probably I'm just picking a nit here, but since is the crux of the last paragraph, I'm taking it as thesis, and as a thesis, it seems overblown... unless there are really no companies out there who care about your privacy. Undoubtedly, there are companies who will choose to say "We care about your privacy" when they don't really mean it, but I think the assertion that no company does needs more evidence than this single data point.

dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
Yes, the author is exaggerating, but he definitely has the point: the "we care about your privacy" is utter hypocrisy in the modern web-world. There are a few companies that do care, but most don't and yet they have the courage of putting up all these false claims. You know what's great about the GDPR? It's that all this is stripped naked and lies just in front of our eyes. The requirement to click hundreds of buttons in order not to be tracked is a slap in the face of each European user.
- bmelton 8y ago
  I definitely agree that in this case, the company is playing dirty. One-click opt-in, 338 click opt-out is downright malicious. I just don't think it's representative of everybody, or that one data point makes the assertion complete. Honestly, I'd be surprised if InfoWorld even intended this behavior, while it seems just as likely that some requirements got lost in the shuffle of trying to hurriedly get GDPR compliance on the page. Considering how few people still understand what GDPR actually does and doesn't allow, it's not really shocking to me that their attempt at compliance was done so ham-handedly, or that it might even have made them less compliant than they were before.

dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago

Yes, the author is exaggerating, but he definitely has the point: the "we care about your privacy" is utter hypocrisy in the modern web-world. There are a few companies that do care, but most don't and yet they have the courage of putting up all these false claims. You know what's great about the GDPR? It's that all this is stripped naked and lies just in front of our eyes. The requirement to click hundreds of buttons in order not to be tracked is a slap in the face of each European user.

bmelton 8y ago
I definitely agree that in this case, the company is playing dirty. One-click opt-in, 338 click opt-out is downright malicious. I just don't think it's representative of everybody, or that one data point makes the assertion complete. Honestly, I'd be surprised if InfoWorld even intended this behavior, while it seems just as likely that some requirements got lost in the shuffle of trying to hurriedly get GDPR compliance on the page. Considering how few people still understand what GDPR actually does and doesn't allow, it's not really shocking to me that their attempt at compliance was done so ham-handedly, or that it might even have made them less compliant than they were before.