Considering the CEO of Automatic is a huge a-hole, I'm hardly surprised.
nine_zeros · 18h ago
Oh they understand consent. They also want to make people accidentally give consent or to mislead them into consent. Their entire business model relies on exploitation of people - and consent is merely a roadblock in exploitation efforts.
dangus · 18h ago
I would say this in a different way, which is that they have an understanding that data handling consent in any sort of way that’s fair to customers is not a legal requirement to operate a tech business in the US.
If you were starting a business and nobody requires you to do a specific action, what’s your incentive to do it? Especially when customers will come your way either way.
If you were starting a business and nobody requires you to do a specific action, what’s your incentive to do it? Especially when customers will come your way either way.