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Well, there is a real danger the web would split into two groups: those who care about privacy and use Firefox - so are a threat to several business models that
by dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
Well, there is a real danger the web would split into two groups: those who care about privacy and use Firefox - so are a threat to several business models that are en vogue in SV right now, and those who use Chrome and are therefore better candidates for milking. Website owners would do everything to discourage people from using their websites with Firefox. Instead of seeing your favorite website in Firefox, you would see "Welcome to Oath family" or similar bullshit.
- gregknicholson 7y agos/Firefox/Europe/g and this is already happening. I suspect we're just training people to click the Whatever button. As that's most “normal” people's response (I am not normal), the courts will eventually rule that a first-use roadblock doesn't produce informed consent, so doesn't excuse you under the GDPR. Hopefully, then, websites will stop performing a superficial impression of caring about privacy. (Explicit informed consent is the GDPR's last-resort excuse, which you only need if your use of personal data falls outside all of the GDPR's automatically-acceptable justifications for using and storing personal data.)