. Instead, you must engage in a perpetual dance of "not now, please"
For similar reasons the ask not to track verbiage of iphones rubbed me the wrong way.
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My government, my company, my former university and even my former highschool have all identified "understanding consent" as a significant social problem worthy of significant spending on PSAs and education programmes.
But even as people are learning about how consent is like tea, they are being exposed every day to software and services that treat it as informed consent if you don't dig into settings to disable something, don't actively delete your account when they arbitrarily change their terms of service, or offer a "contract" with a piece of software you've already purchased that you can't negotiate.
It shouldn't need to be said but...you don't get to skip getting informed consent just because it would be difficult or time consuming or annoying or expensive.
What's great about YouTube and other corporate social media is that you can never use it.
I highly recommend that.
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I understand that it's not the "YouTube program" having its own agency and making this decision - it's the team behind it, driven by engagement metrics and growth targets. But does the average user understand this distinction?
Yes.
What a stupid question. Does the author think that people believe televisions want to sell them things too?
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