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"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."
There's a large (possibly majority) segment of HN's population which is so pro-corporate as to be anti-human. In cases relevant to the previous post, I've had numerous conversations with people on HN where they defend advertisers, including pervasive tracking, ads masquerading as search results, and the belief that advertisers can consent on behalf of users.
Treating such toxic ideology as acceptable in the name of politeness doesn't make HN or the world a better place. The pro-corporate ideologues here say much worse things than anything I said, which was simply an accurate description of HNers' behavior.
Do you have any evidence for that claim? Unless you have access to raw HN data, I suspect not.
> Treating such toxic ideology as acceptable in the name of politeness doesn't make HN or the world a better place.
Well, if you don't, then you're breaking the site guidelines, and you'll be flagged.
Oh give me a break. There are plenty of great sites without cookie banners, because they respect your privacy to begin with.
Let's be real, the GDPR banners are far less annoying than the ads that HNers love to defend.