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It's laziness. Most people just take the path of the least resistance.
Once you show them the screen, any choice is the same amount of work so they will select what they really want. But without the screen, 90% of people will be good enough with the default option. Or, they might even be mildly uncomfortable with that option, but not enough to do something about it.
we all do in many parts of life
I didn't say it's a bad thing. If someone tried to pay attention to every little choice they make, they would be exhausted before the morning coffee.
What kind of browser I use is important to me, since I am a geek. But I don't pay attention to many things that more socially adept people would consider important.
the trick is to know what is worth paying attention to and what is not
Rather, the trick is to figure out what is important for you individually and learn to not care for the opinions of others thst go past factual decision making information.
How do?
some things are worth your time and some things are not, you yourself decide what is what. You just have to know what is important to you and consider things that affect that. And to also know what things are not worth giving a fuck. The capitalist society also trys to make you care about worthless things so those too will fill up your attention.
So in essence, if something isnt important to you and not caring about it doesnt make your life more difficult, let that thing go.
Story of my life.
same
Yeah I guess people doesn't really care all that much about giving information to big tech, it's so normalized today, in my university (I am a student) when I tell people I don't use Instagram or TikTok and whatnot they look at me like I am crazy, tbh maybe if we define crazy as "not doing what everyone around you does" maybe I am
I was one of those people some time ago. I remember doing it deliberately and saying "what will they do to me? Offer me a product that better suits my needs?"
I never had any issues because of that...
right now I decline each time, the more work it costs me, the more motivated I am to decline every single marketing consent.
I do it out of spite, because of all the enshitification happening to services I used to like, and I just try to make their life harder.
I really hope that Google will, some day, miss one cent needed for some huge multi billion deal thanks to my resistance! ;)
not all heroes wear capes
To be fair, we haven’t had all the consequences of it hit the population yet.
Surveillance pricing might change the narrative
oh don't you worry, it won't. Because those who refuse the surveillance will face the highest prices.
recently I bought something in a shop I rarely go to. plenty of things they sold for two times the price if you didn't have a member card.
If people are going to talk about the details of their divorce in a tiktok video I doubt they care much that someone is tracking what products they looked at on amazon.