Note: The header image was created by Visual Cinnamon for The New York Times on an opinion piece on digital trackers. By now everyone is familiar and desensitized to cookie popups that bombard us on our first visit to almost every. These cookie consent alerts are there for a reason, they are required by new legislation such as GDPR and the California CPA. This legislation has been introduced to try to protect consumers from boundless data collection policies , which is a laudable goal.
I used to be one of those “It just personalizes my ads i dont see the problem” before I started to learn about what internet privacy really meant. Now I don’t understand how to get through to these people when I try to explain that it doesn’t matter if you don’t do anything illegal because privacy is a basic right at this point.