Ignore the downvotes. It wasn't a syntactic headline.

I had the same issue, which is somewhat ironic given the topic. Reading the body text and then revisiting the headline:

"Why does Google word their privacy settings in a way that makes it sound like you are agreeing to let them harvest your data regardless of which option you select?"

I understand it is confusing and obfuscated.

“Default on, or opt-out” is not news.