New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed S4505, a law that requires websites to display warnings claiming that features like algorithmic feeds, push notifications, infinite scroll, like counts, and autoplay cause addiction – despite, as TechDirt argues, the absence of scientific consensus supporting such claims.
@seraphine @technocrit the cookie banner is often now a “accept or leave” button, similar to how this sounds. Or “accept or pay”, commonly.
I never accept.
technically it is illegal in the EU, but yesh, those exist. still better than just tracking you without asking
@seraphine alas, I am in the UK. Who knows what’s illegal or not here