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Re:WhatsApp threatened to leave the Netherlands due to contr... by inglor_cz on Saturday June 04, 2022 @07:24AM (#31619102)
Did they really decide? Default settings are a sort of a pre-decision made by someone else.

That has been intensely studied in behavioral economics and there is a lot of laws that addresses the fact that people actually tend to leave pre-made decisions in place. (This is used in, e.g. laws that regulate consent to organ donation.)

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Re:WhatsApp threatened to leave the Netherlands due to contr... by dijit on Saturday June 04, 2022 @11:35AM (#31621551)
There was a prompt. Not a default position.

You could argue the wording was loaded or something, but it’s certainly not an “opt-in to tracking” situation.

You couldn’t proceed without picking one of the options.

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