Comment by elohimus
13 hours ago
I feel it's worth distinguishing between the Hacker News Audience that is highly tech-educated and security-conscious and the general public that just wants to use the web and seems more than happy to give all their data to Meta, Google & Co.
If you ask my 70-year-old mom to decide whether she'd like to allow the WebGL API, she'll go bonkers. If anything, the constant cookie banners have just trained her to consent to stuff out of muscle memory. You could probably design a "Are you ok to sign over the deed to your house" question in the rough shape of a cookie banner and get 90%+ agreement.
My favorite cookie banner is on arstechnica.com:
> We Care About Your Privacy
> We, and our 228 partners use cookies and similar methods to recognize visitors [...]
228 partners should make anybody concious about the fact that something is wrong and you probably should not consent to that at all. Also, nobody cares about your privacy when they think sharing data with 228 parties is okay.
I've seen some sites, mainly in the video game field, that have even higher numbers such as 750. Do I want to share my info with your 750 partners? Um, no. Typically I just leave the site.
The typical wording is "We value your privacy". Which just means they think it's valuable and want a part of that pie thank you very much.
I like that! "We value your privacy. At about $.0003 per data point."