Ironically, imgur shows a wholly non-compliant 'when you click yes here, you agree to all our default opt-in tracking, storing and sharing' popup when you open that link. But I have to give it to them - when you actually go into the scary-looking part, they do spell out in detail in what ways you're being tracked.
If those businesses are heavy shadow tracking/ads companies which don't even know which user data are they collecting, to who are they sending them and for which final use, man, I am so damn happy.
Because the risk and costs of compliance are borne by all, not just the non-compliant. I would hope that "but laws only affect the bad guys" or "if you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about" would no longer be reasonable arguments these days.
> Because the risk and costs of compliance are borne by all, not just the non-compliant. I would hope that "but laws only affect the bad guys" or "if you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about" would no longer be reasonable arguments these days.
That's like saying that drug regulations are bad, because all opiate producers take on "the risk and costs of compliance," not just the street pushers.
The whole point is to actually raise standards for all of society. What you're criticizing is enforcing higher standards than the current status quo.
If you had used drug laws, e.g. marijuana laws, in your analogy it would make more sense. They think they are raising standards too. It's not about what the point is, it is about the implementation. It's so tough to have reasonable discourse about the topic because if you are against the approach people think you are against the whole point.
https://i.imgur.com/hKEItPS.png
They obviously have NO idea what's being collected on every user and how it is being used.