HN is typically slow to admit it, but Facebook and TikTok wouldn't be popular if you were wrong. Consumers don't care.

Consumers don't know or want to know rather - ignorance is bliss when it comes to getting Children to spend relatively quiet time independently. Otherwise the GOP would be virtue-signalling about getting Roblox as a platform getting banned due to the preponderance of predators and material unsuitable or unsafe for children.

I live in Europe so there are still rules keeping Weyland-Yutani in line.

If you're in the US you're on your own I guess.

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People care about other people they meet spying on them or doing creepy things. They don't care about people they don't meet spying on them or doing creepy things, because they don't notice it and it has a very low chance of showing up in the social media feed of people they know.

Totally. Most people just click Accept All on the dumb cookie banners, and they don't give a sh*t about privacy at all.

Its not that they dont care at all. They just dont care until they feel the pain of it, because they are optimising for short term satisfaction.