I think legislation is the only way to fix this :( Require owner's/user's consent to connect. If no consent, no connect. Device's offline capabilities must s

I think legislation is the only way to fix this :( Require owner's/user's consent to connect. If no consent, no connect. Device's offline capabilities must still work and it must not nag you or otherwise use dark patterns to force a consent out of you. That would be a relatively minor extension to gdpr.