Re:New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cooki...
by freeflight on Monday December 20, 2021 @07:47AM
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> I'd imagine since then awareness has risen massively, so if anything people would likely be more concerned today.
It's sadly the opposite; It's so normalized that a whole generation was born into it and don't even see anything wrong about it.
All a lot of them see is how Google is giving them "free services" and how Facebook allows them to make "free friends", and then they declare; That's the web, and that's how the web has always been and how it should be.
And who can blame them; They never knew any other web than the glorified digital mall [0] it has mostly become.
It's sadly the opposite; It's so normalized that a whole generation was born into it and don't even see anything wrong about it.
All a lot of them see is how Google is giving them "free services" and how Facebook allows them to make "free friends", and then they declare; That's the web, and that's how the web has always been and how it should be.
And who can blame them; They never knew any other web than the glorified digital mall [0] it has mostly become.
[0] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...