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> sick of the robots on the street sharing our space, we didnt consent to that brother you have consent completely fucked up, you cannot consent on behalf of the street dawg

"we didn't consent to" is a 99.9% efficient indicator of an absolute dogshit perspective inbound, just full disconnect from reality, because imagining communal consent to the actions of others requires this

What on earth are you talking about? Nobody asked for Google to spy on its users so egregiously that legislation had to be drawn up to get them to seek “permission”, which they then strongarmed publishers into gaining via cookie banners. *Obviously* some PM asked for that… but so what?!

igi, because often there is an underlying user-ask. google spying lubricates all sorts of "the computer should just know" features that people like-to-claim-to-hate-while-using-them but i think more clearly "no one asked" papers over thinking about why a PM thought this was smart

People have a constitutionally* protected reasonable expectation of privacy though, and neither Google’s ability to provide features, nor the indifference of some users, justifies violating (or papering over) a legal right *not referring solely to the US here

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yes! very true! and fully orthogonal to 'no one asked'. like i'm not saying these things are good, i'm saying this idea corrupts our ability to discuss why they're bad

jae (hallowed)@fubarchitect.com

yes! that one is worse because it's occasionally attached to an idea with legs and it's like "please don't, i was listening up to that point"