@codinghorror As for why this isn't a browser feature, it was and is! It is a *choice* by your industry to disregard this, by ignoring DNT and not implementing GPC in major browsers. Did your site honour DNT? Does it honour GPC in places where it is not legally obliged to?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/DNT
https://globalprivacycontrol.org/
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This is a core system app interrupting you, promoting a sale by a movie-ticketing company, to push you to go see the platform vendor’s new movie.
Why not just pop up random ads all the time, always creating new channels that everyone’s opted-into by default so you can never keep up with opting out of them all?
Oh wait, that’s already what happens.
Apple’s as bad as everyone else. They don’t respect their customers — we’re fodder.
They truly have no standards anymore.
https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/114738626109660386
I recently read this: https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
It’s long. Very long. And not every example is perfect.
And it’s also, broadly, very right about what tech has become.
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More
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