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There is no universe in which “side effect of technology I do not fully understand” would be considered consent.

• sneak 7y ago
  The medical one? I don’t think most people understand the full implications of most medical treatment choices they make, but they still opt for them, and we still call it informed consent.
• sneak 7y ago
  Are users responsible for any other piece of machinery they purchase that they don’t fully understand? The very fact that you can choose different web browsers, some that accept and save cookies and some that don’t, or different email clients, some that load remote content and some that don’t, means that the user made a choice. They purchased hardware that they chose, they installed and configured apps and services that they chose, or that came preinstalled on the hardware that they chose. I would venture a guess that most consumers do not opt to fully understand the consequences of their consumption choices, sure. But that doesn’t mean that their choices, or the consequences thereof, are any less their own. Ignorance of the consequence of one’s choices is itself a choice.