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Actually, I do. There's a fallacy that displaying information before requesting consent necessarily leads to informed consent. Many users have insufficient background to understand what they're consenting to, particularly since such info-dumps tend to not mention what the consequences of various choices would be. With no context for their decision other than "Accept makes things work," all you're doing is training users to sign away their rights without knowing that they are



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