My understanding of how data is captured and used and sold is a bit hazy, but I'm instinctively averse to having companies follow me around online and use my data for whatever they want.
When the data permission thing pops up on MN, there's a link saying 'vendor preferences' (which is easily missed) which takes you to another set of consent toggles. Even if you have declined all the consents on the previous page, on the vendor preferences section you have to individually untoggle approx 150 different companies' 'legitimate interest' consent. ie even if you've declined everything on the first data consent page, 150 companies can still track you if they feel it's in their 'legitimate interest', unless you know to look and take the time to untoggle them.
Here's what it says if you click the ? about legitimate interest:
'How does legitimate interest work?
Some vendors are not asking for your consent, but are using your personal data on the basis of their legitimate interest.'
Isn't this the same as
'Can we stalk you?'
'No.'
'But what if we really want to?'
Have I understood this correctly? Am I the only one who minds? If not, can we ask MN to just give us a simple 'reject all' option that some other websites have?