I’m not talking about popularity or success here. But rather, I think you massively overestimate the ear of the average Spotify subscriber.

You’d be surprised with the amount of people who love the Muzak-filled playlists made by Spotify.

And there are 1.3 billion smokers in the world according to the WHO.

Does that make cigarettes useful?

If you’re gullible enough to believe an FAQ coming from Github themselves, then I have bad news for you.

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You might want to play Psycho Patrol R.

Except the mainframes are owned by a cabal of Nazi billionaires now.

Ah, yes the fabled Horny Text Markup Language.

In a literal sense. They’re putting a price on your privacy, and there are 938 buyers.

Does anyone have an archive link for the original Wired article?

Outside of PeerTube, you mean?

I still would rather have the possibility of no banners, not even the first time I open the page.

Oh that’s entirely possible, even with the current law as it is. All the developer has to do is to stop using cookies for anything that is not related to the functionality of the website.

But of course, the adtech bros won’t give up on their precious tracking, so they’d rather try and shift the blame with an empty argument along the lines of “Hey, the bad EU law is forcing us to bother you.”

The law only concerns cookies that are not strictly necessary to provide a service.

So the cookie to remember that you denied all non-necessary cookies could be seen as necessary and thus not require your consent.

Sir, this is 2025, we don’t do nuanced opinions here anymore.