“Defaults don’t matter, you can just change them.”
Really? Why do you think Google gives Mozilla HALF A BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR to be the DEFAULT search engine on Firefox if defaults don’t matter? Or give Apple £1.2 BILLION for the same in the UK alone?
Think about it.
Are they idiots?
Or are you?
@aral Or put another way, if defaults don't matter, why did the US tech industry fight so hard to remove the part of the California data privacy law that would require tracking to be opt-in?
@kyle @aral Advertising isn’t mind control. They pour billions into it because they’re just kinda bad with money!
Lobbying isn’t really bribing any politicians. All the money going into it is just a coincidence!
That guy isn’t a brilliant man pretending to be stupid. He just mistakenly stumbled into the most powerful political position in the world, like Mister Magoo.
The entertainment industry is just about silly harmless fun, and they’re only warping whole governments into favoring them, because I dunno maybe they’re bored?
I’m not important enough for them to care about my data. They only prevent me from having privacy at all costs, because their finger slipped and hit the oppression button!
That’s not malice, because there’s a chance it could be stupidity, therefore it is!
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
@kyle This.