See, I don&#x27;t get this. Europe is acting as if it had a duty to protect its people from the bad companies that steal your privacy while you sleep, whereas in reality nothing happens if you don&#x27;t explicitly give consent first. Don&#x27;t want Facebook to use your personal data to sell you ads? Don&#x27;t put it on Facebook. Don&#x27;t want YayView to access your location at all times? Then don&#x27;t give it access to it, it&#x27;s asking you right there, even if it&#x27;s being shady about it.<p>It&#x27;s a little bit like if people had trouble using forks without stabbing themselves, and the proposed solution was to ban all forks in the country. Well perhaps more work should go towards teaching people how to use a fork, since they can be useful for meals, rather than banning them?<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, it&#x27;s a shame that companies like YayView exploit dark patterns to trick people into doing things they don&#x27;t fully understand, but let&#x27;s not ban all the things because of it.