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gesshatoday at 1:48 AM1 replyview on HN

News from the year 2030: Google takes your credit card info, sells it on the black market for pennies and kicks you in the groin.

Framing this as needing "consent" is deeply misguided. It's as silly as claiming that Google stole your credit card info without your consent. It's just part of the software. You consented to installing the software and having it autoupdate. That covers it.

Now we can argue whether or not it's an appropriate amount of physical abuse to use, but that's just a reasonable practical discussion to have. Framing it around consent is unnecessarily inflammatory and makes it harder to have a discussion, not easier.


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wavemodetoday at 1:58 AM

You're arguing in bad faith.

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