> A pop-up, a slide-in, a full-screen overlay demanding you "Accept All," "Manage Preferences," or navigate a labyrinth of toggles designed by a corporate lawyer.
It's the dark patterns and lack of consistency that makes it worse. Some websites even refuse to allow you to reject data collection unless you pay to use their service (i.e. news websites)!
As others have echoed, we just need to make this large data collection illegal.
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