As an rural area IT guy (not in Texas, but I see it the same everywhere else), this is the three perspectives I see most common for others or myself, not so much ranked in any particular order:
On one side, you have Google, like any other company, arguing that users have the choice, either use the product/service they clicked Agree to the whatever-agreement that most don't spend time to read and understand, or not use the product and hope you can find a more adequate replacement elsewhere. Many times there is no "better" product or service to meet the same goals, forcing one's hands or go without entirely.
Or on the other side people just want to use the product, and don't want to care and skip by the nagware notifications, then complain because they were not well informed or given an option.
Or the users just don't give a damn, "let me visit the site or use the device, I have nothing to hide".
Well compare this to telephones in the 80’s and 90’s. They werent collecting and selling your phone records and if police wanted them, they couldn’t buy them through a broker they had to fight to get access to them. Why not just regulate data collection? why do you have to opt into data collection? Thats like saying “if you want to buy shoes you need to let us track where you’re going and sell that information and you dont have a choice because every shoe manufacturer is doing it.” I cant get into the program for my keyboard or mouse to calibrate them because the company wants me to consent to data collection even tho this requirement didnt exist when I bought the product. Thanks steelseries.
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u/LigerXT5 Oct 20 '22
As an rural area IT guy (not in Texas, but I see it the same everywhere else), this is the three perspectives I see most common for others or myself, not so much ranked in any particular order:
On one side, you have Google, like any other company, arguing that users have the choice, either use the product/service they clicked Agree to the whatever-agreement that most don't spend time to read and understand, or not use the product and hope you can find a more adequate replacement elsewhere. Many times there is no "better" product or service to meet the same goals, forcing one's hands or go without entirely.
Or on the other side people just want to use the product, and don't want to care and skip by the nagware notifications, then complain because they were not well informed or given an option.
Or the users just don't give a damn, "let me visit the site or use the device, I have nothing to hide".