alt Hacker NewsHN crowd is not representative of the world at large. consumers don't care. cost and convenience are primary motivators.
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troupo • today at 2:12 PM
Onve again it's been shown that consumers do care when they are properly shown the extent of data collection and/or are allowed to opt out.
E.g. when iOS introduced "ask apps to not track", 96% of users clicked "do not track": https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/96-of-us-users-opt-o...
If consumers didn't care, companies wouldn't go to extreme lengths to hide the fact that they are tracking you, and to invent craxier and crazier dark patterns to trick you into giving up your data.
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As far as I can tell, many “regular” people do care and alter buying decisions based on privacy concerns. They use words like “creepy” instead of technical ones, but the underlying discomfort is the same.