How to Save a Billion Hours
Accepting and rejecting cookies. Most people don’t even know what cookies are when they answer this question 30 or 40 times a day. It would greatly simplify your day if you could set it and forget it or at least be asked for only certain types of sites, such as medical ones.
Blame this one on the European politicians who invented General Data Protection Regulation, which increases the cost of advertising and walls off data for the benefit of big companies while also wasting your time. • Two-factor authentication. What started as a well-intentioned attempt to increase security has devolved into an endless back-and-forth of plugging in random six-digit numbers.
Just check our eyeballs and be done with it already. • “You’re on mute." Two years since the pandemic ended, this is still one of the most uttered phrases on the internet. It stops everyone on the call and forces the muted party to repeat what he just said.
Make the “mute" sign a huge red button that lights up when you talk while on mute. • Four-digit years. We’re almost a quarter-century past Y2K and could get by with two digits for another lifetime.
• Accepting 30-page terms and conditions. These documents have been written by the same kinds of law firms that advised those college presidents. Most of them could just say, “It’s free—you’re responsible." Or maybe just let sites file all these somewhere you can find them if you are dying to read the terms of service and skip the ceremonial approvals.
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