What exactly is dumb about "you can't collect user data wholesale, but if you want to do it, you have to ask the user for consent"?
Why are so willing to blame the law for something that the industry is doing, and you're giving the industry the carte blanche to do whatever they please
> I don't need to invent conspiracies and accuse the industry that provides me goods and services I actually want.
There's no conspiracy. The conspiracy is literally what you're saying: that the law makes the good benevolent industry put up these cookie banners riddled with dark patterns that list hundreds of data brokers. Instead of, you know, literally following the law.
