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Gartner has predicted by 2038, the average American will spend 17 hours per day opting out of things they never opted into.

• hedora 4y ago
  Do they predict what percentage of trackers this continuous coke-filled click-fest will actually disable?
  • TeMPOraL 4y ago
    They did not, because the number wasn't estimated by adding up predicted time per tracker or service, but by determining this is about the maximum the market can bear - i.e. a steady state of the system. Curiously, Stratfor also predicted 60% chance of the US going to war with the EU before 2036, due to EU privacy regulation threatening to shut down the increasingly adtech-based US economy.
    • thechao 4y ago
      This serious analysis is stupider than the entire plot of Idiocracy.
• bmitc 4y ago
  I can’t tell if that’s a real report or something from The Onion.