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Comment by varispeed

19 hours ago

Default opt-in tracking should be illegal and enforced with such fines and prison sentences, that companies wouldn't even dare to have anything remotely capable of tracking in the runtime.

Unfortunately big corporations can always find away to make regulators see no problem.

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varispeed

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pseudalopex  13 hours ago

> Default opt-in

This is called opt out.

  • varispeed  2 hours ago

    Yeah, I always mix it up. Thank you!

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