The law wasn’t designed to make your web experience better, or worse. It was simply designed to make it easier to exercise your right to privacy, by forcing co

The law wasn’t designed to make your web experience better, or worse. It was simply designed to make it easier to exercise your right to privacy, by forcing companies (and by extension their websites) to get informed consent before they invade your privacy. There’s many reasons why we’re in our current mess, but I don’t think making companies get informed consent is “tech-hostile”. It’s privacy invading hostile, and if privacy invasions are now synonymous with the tech-industry, then as an industry we need to take a long hard look in the mirror and decide if we’re going to continue enabling this behaviour, or find other business models that don’t rely on trampling the rights of the ignorant or uninformed. I honestly don’t understand why people take such an issue with the concept of informed consent. It’s one the foundations of a free and equal society.