Ricaz

No.. Even if that was true, what you're saying is "you're right, but you might not be in a month, sooo Google bad".

It won't be opt-out because first of all, that's against the law. And second you're literally opting in by accepting their terms...

I disagree in that it's misleading. But how dafuq du they have a monopoly on web browsers? That's just stupid

I live in Europe, and it's most definitely opt-in.

I'm just saying it's opt-in, which it definitely is. It's not "sneaky" if it's literally clearly out in the open. They're not "lying" and they are conforming to EU law which is quite strict on this topic.

You are choosing to accept their terms of service, and if you don't like them, just use a different browser??

Proton and Wine are largely the same thing. Proton just has DXVK built in as well as a bunch of Valve-made patches.

Valve had greatly accelerated Wine development. I still run many games off pure Wine with manually added DXVK.

I live in Europe so maybe that's why it asked me if I wanted to enable it.

Yes, and people are free to choose and think what they want. Everyone knows there can be shady things in ToS, they just don't care, and that's honestly fine.

A more serious issue, in my opinion, is sensitive personal data like government identification, medical and banking records, and of course date of birth, address, etc. that can be used to identify you and in worse cases, steal your identity.

Such data is not being handled well enough, for the vast majority of cases. I'm lucky to live in a country/region that does it well (better than most), with laws protecting individuals.

But honestly idgaf if ad trackers can see on my digital footprint that I just bought a bicycle. I also enjoy services like Google Maps very much, because it works scarily well, and I can choose when I want to be tracked or not.

Tracking cookies have been a thing for literally decades.

So if it's opt-in, how is it sneaky?

It is most definitely opt-in for me. It popped up and said "would you like to enable this?", explaining what would be shared and why. It was not enabled automatically. That's opt-in if you ask me.

If that's what they want, they chose the wrong distro.