I think this quote by the Mozilla CTO demonstrates the issue quite well:
"I honestly don't think the uproar would have been avoided by a modal, and we would have been interrupting the lives of hundreds of millions of people with a choice that is at best time-consuming to evaluate and at worst (and most commonly) entirely inscrutable." - https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_about_private_attribution_in_firefox/lddphvk/?context=3
Sarah Jamie Lewis /
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2024-07-16 02:15:45
in reply to nevent1q…lztp
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