>As a European citizen, I'm tired of having to close hundreds of popups a day which purposefully use dark patterns to make it harder to unselect everything and

>As a European citizen, I'm tired of having to close hundreds of popups a day which purposefully use dark patterns to make it harder to unselect everything and just close and make it easy to accept everything in one click. There's a terrific browser extension called Consent Manager [1] that automatizes it. [1] https://github.com/privacycloud/consent-manager-web-ext https://github.com/privacycloud/consent-manager-web-ext As for freedom, well, you're free to just consent and get your identity traded and become a digital slave. By and large the law works just as it was meant to : showing in broad daylight the extent of what the data market has become.