
2 seems simple, but every site uses a slightly different variation for opt-in, but every variant is based on your lizard brain being tempted to click accept. The sites that make you scroll through 938 'legitimate interest" partners to get the “reject all” option are particularly shit.






What galls me is not just the presumption that we want it, but that we need to be reminded that AI exists with every. Single. Interaction. Then you have Microsoft who had the nerve to charge EXTRA for Copilot by default (as part of Office whatever its name is this week), a product I don’t want and actively try to suppress.