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Comment by cortesoft

Sadly, this still doesn't do anything to show me that I should opt out.

I, as an individual, am not going to have any effect on a business if I opt out or not. No business decision is going to be made because I opt out.

You might argue that it will matter if enough of us do it. Sure, that is true... but again, it won't matter if I do it or not. If N number of people opting out is enough to ruin the business model, then N-1 is surely enough as well. There is a 0% chance that I am the one who finally causes the system to collapse.

I do use an ad blocker, and never click on ads. I feel like that action has a bigger return on investment than no clicking the cookie banner.

If having more information about me allows the website to charge more to show me an ad, and I never click any ads, then I am hopefully helping decrease the return advertisers get by using personal information.

parent cortesoft 8 months ago

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