#darkpattern — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #darkpattern, aggregated by home.social.
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fucking #microsoft, send down a #windowsupdate to my 79 yo Mum's computer - that after it installs shows a full screen unskippable wizard that scares the shit out of her.
all so they can ask her to set edge back to the default browser and try and hock a 365 subscription at her. Wasting both our time for nothing she would ever want or need.
fucking dark pattern ui, where the accept the subscription is the button and the decline is a hyperlink above it
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fucking #microsoft, send down a #windowsupdate to my 79 yo Mum's computer - that after it installs shows a full screen unskippable wizard that scares the shit out of her.
all so they can ask her to set edge back to the default browser and try and hock a 365 subscription at her. Wasting both our time for nothing she would ever want or need.
fucking dark pattern ui, where the accept the subscription is the button and the decline is a hyperlink above it
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#Software popping up a dialog box asking "Do you want to do X", and giving only the options of "Yes" and some version of "Set up later" or "Not right now" is a bit of as manipulative #darkpattern
Whatever happened to simply "No"?
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#Software popping up a dialog box asking "Do you want to do X", and giving only the options of "Yes" and some version of "Set up later" or "Not right now" is a bit of as manipulative #darkpattern
Whatever happened to simply "No"?
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Que c'est fatiguant les sites web qui te demandent de passer par leur application mobile pour créer un compte ...
Surtout quand cela ne fonctionne pas et qu'ils ne te disent pas pourquoi 🙃.
Et non, je n'ai pas utilisé l'option "compte Google" fortement mise en avant 🤬.
Coucou 👋 Polarsteps https://www.polarsteps.com
Pas grave, je continuerais à suivre depuis le site web sans commenter.
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Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant
> Meta's harms reached the level of "public nuisance", or an issue of health and safety that has become so widespread it is negatively impacting a general public.
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#darkpattern im Adidas Shop
Der Haken unter „Du möchtest keine personalisierten Marketinginformationen von adidas erhalten.“ ist vorausgewählt.
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@adfichter
Dark patterns meinte ich
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@adfichter
Dark patterns meinte ich
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@cannedtuna This is why opt-out doesn't work. If you reset/reinstall your system, you have to remember to opt-out again.
Same thing anytime you switch to a different system.
The vendor can also create 'snazzy new feature' that has a similar-but-different behavior embedded in it... and the new feature is opt-out.
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@cannedtuna This is why opt-out doesn't work. If you reset/reinstall your system, you have to remember to opt-out again.
Same thing anytime you switch to a different system.
The vendor can also create 'snazzy new feature' that has a similar-but-different behavior embedded in it... and the new feature is opt-out.
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Nasce Kill the Cookie Banner, una campagna europea che chiede di eliminare questi pop-up e lasciare che sia il browser a gestire una volta per tutte le preferenze sulla privacy.
Basta dark pattern. Basta ricatti digitali. La privacy non dovrebbe dipendere da chi riesce a stancarti prima.
Se puoi condividi questo messaggio e seguici nel nostro gruppo @[email protected] dove segnaliamo le battaglie per la privacy e i diritti digitali.
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Nasce Kill the Cookie Banner, una campagna europea che chiede di eliminare questi pop-up e lasciare che sia il browser a gestire una volta per tutte le preferenze sulla privacy.
Basta dark pattern. Basta ricatti digitali. La privacy non dovrebbe dipendere da chi riesce a stancarti prima.
Se puoi condividi questo messaggio e seguici nel nostro gruppo @[email protected] dove segnaliamo le battaglie per la privacy e i diritti digitali.
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Amazon signed me up for IMDb. I've never had or wanted an IMDb account. Amazon why.
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@schenklklopfer Ja gibt es. Hab ich mal in einer Dark-Pattern-Liste gesehen.
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@schenklklopfer Ja gibt es. Hab ich mal in einer Dark-Pattern-Liste gesehen.
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WTF! Amazon! Ich suche nach "Microslop" T-Shirts und Amazon verändert meine Eingabe in der Suchleiste zu etwas, was ich nicht eingegeben habe! Wie gut, dass Amazon es nicht zu Trinitrotoluol getauscht hat...
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@somlu1968 @nilz @fragdenstaat
Uhh, wow. #DarkPattern gefunden. [Emoji mit Wunderkerzen oder so]
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If something is bad for #teenagers and has already been banned by policymakers in some countries, it can't be good for #adults.
#meme #media #socialmedia #fail #ethics #algorithm #bigtech #siliconValley #economy #business #youth #teenager #adult #society #politics #future #internet #online #fake #hate #propaganda #manipulation #humanity #health #protest #resistance #finance #darkpattern #security #children #protection #cybersecurity #abuse
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" #Firefox recently rolled out a set of New Tab widgets timed to the 2026 FIFA World Cup"
1) No browser should time anything to any sports events
2) This is very annoying and I'm still not sure if I could disable it, because I don't have the button mentioned in the article #darkpattern
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/06/11/how-to-turn-off-firefox-widgets-new-tab/ -
" #Firefox recently rolled out a set of New Tab widgets timed to the 2026 FIFA World Cup"
1) No browser should time anything to any sports events
2) This is very annoying and I'm still not sure if I could disable it, because I don't have the button mentioned in the article #darkpattern
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/06/11/how-to-turn-off-firefox-widgets-new-tab/ -
Das OLG Dresden hat entschieden dass Hinweise wie „Stark nachgefragt“ oder „Überleg nicht zu lange“ weder gegen Art. 25 DSA noch gegen das UWG verstoßen. Dark Patterns seien erst dann unzulässig, wenn sie die Entscheidungsfreiheit der Nutzer tatsächlich erheblich beeinträchtigen, was im konkreten Fall verneint wurde.
https://shopbetreiber-blog.de/olg-dresden-stark-nachgefragt-ist-kein-unzulaessiges-dark-patterns
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Das OLG Dresden hat entschieden dass Hinweise wie „Stark nachgefragt“ oder „Überleg nicht zu lange“ weder gegen Art. 25 DSA noch gegen das UWG verstoßen. Dark Patterns seien erst dann unzulässig, wenn sie die Entscheidungsfreiheit der Nutzer tatsächlich erheblich beeinträchtigen, was im konkreten Fall verneint wurde.
https://shopbetreiber-blog.de/olg-dresden-stark-nachgefragt-ist-kein-unzulaessiges-dark-patterns
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Not only do the new AirTags require iOS 26 to set up (I’m still on 18), they won’t show up at all on iOS 18 after you set them up with an iOS 26 device.
That was a deliberate choice by Apple, to complete hide them from view on iOS <26.
And btw, you have no idea this is the case when you buy them.
Fuck you, Apple.
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Not only do the new AirTags require iOS 26 to set up (I’m still on 18), they won’t show up at all on iOS 18 after you set them up with an iOS 26 device.
That was a deliberate choice by Apple, to complete hide them from view on iOS <26.
And btw, you have no idea this is the case when you buy them.
Fuck you, Apple.
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Et oui le site internet de #radiofrance est devenu impraticable. Il ressemble plus à un tunnel de pub qu'à une ressource culturelle : pas de contexte, liens morts, ou pire, liens trompeurs.
Heureusement il y a aerion
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Et oui le site internet de #radiofrance est devenu impraticable. Il ressemble plus à un tunnel de pub qu'à une ressource culturelle : pas de contexte, liens morts, ou pire, liens trompeurs.
Heureusement il y a aerion
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Quelqu’un comprend comment fonctionne l’autorisation de cookies tiers sur le site #Arte arte.tv ? Je cherche à autoriser Youtube (nécessaire pour voir une certaine vidéo), mais pas les deux autres. Je ne trouve pas comment valider mon choix sans cliquer sur Accepter Tout.
Si j’active Youtube et que je cliquer hors du dialogue, alors le site ne retient pas que j’ai activé Youtube.
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Quelqu’un comprend comment fonctionne l’autorisation de cookies tiers sur le site #Arte arte.tv ? Je cherche à autoriser Youtube (nécessaire pour voir une certaine vidéo), mais pas les deux autres. Je ne trouve pas comment valider mon choix sans cliquer sur Accepter Tout.
Si j’active Youtube et que je cliquer hors du dialogue, alors le site ne retient pas que j’ai activé Youtube.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@sven_giegold/116714566379811462
Übrigens, wer auf der von @sven_giegold verlinkten Seite eine Unterschrift tätigt, sollte vor(!) dem Absenden den unscheinbaren Text "Abo-Einstellungen bearbeiten" unter dem großen "JETZT UNTERSCHREIBEN!"-Button anklicken.
Hier wird einem eine Option "untergeschoben":
»E-Mail-Updates anfordern von BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN«
Und nein, wenn man das nicht deaktiviert gilt nicht »Du erhältst vielleicht E-Mail-Updates von BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN«, sondern es gilt: du bekommst über kurz oder lang ganz bestimmt E-Mail-Updates von denen.
#DarkPattern – die #Grünen sind dabei!
Und #Alternativtexte sind da eher so "Hauptsache es steht was drin."
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@sven_giegold/116714566379811462
Übrigens, wer auf der von @sven_giegold verlinkten Seite eine Unterschrift tätigt, sollte vor(!) dem Absenden den unscheinbaren Text "Abo-Einstellungen bearbeiten" unter dem großen "JETZT UNTERSCHREIBEN!"-Button anklicken.
Hier wird einem eine Option "untergeschoben":
»E-Mail-Updates anfordern von BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN«
Und nein, wenn man das nicht deaktiviert gilt nicht »Du erhältst vielleicht E-Mail-Updates von BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN«, sondern es gilt: du bekommst über kurz oder lang ganz bestimmt E-Mail-Updates von denen.
#DarkPattern – die #Grünen sind dabei!
Und #Alternativtexte sind da eher so "Hauptsache es steht was drin."
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Midnight Run-tapahtuman ilmoittautumissivu käyttää tässä kahta kyseenalaista Dark Pattern-suunnittelutekniikkaa manipuloidakseen ilmoittautujaa. Osaatko huomata mitkä ne ovat?
Oikeat vastaukset videolla, jonka löydät kommenteista.
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The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldn’t let me say no.
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2026/05/27/opt-out-dark-patterns
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The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldn’t let me say no.
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2026/05/27/opt-out-dark-patterns
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@kuketzblog
Danke für den Tipp. Der war die Extra-Spende zum #DSGVO-Jubiläum wert, selbst wenn ich das Píxel nicht gewinne. -
@kuketzblog
Danke für den Tipp. Der war die Extra-Spende zum #DSGVO-Jubiläum wert, selbst wenn ich das Píxel nicht gewinne. -
Kleinanzeigen hat still und heimlich KI-Funktionen aktiviert – ohne sichtbare Ankündigung, ohne aktive Zustimmung. Konversationen mit gewerblichen Verkäufern können analysiert werden, um KI-Antwortvorschläge zu verbessern. Datenschutzrechtlich fragwürdig, kommunikativ eine Frechheit.
Wer das abschalten will: Einstellungen → Datenschutz → KI-Tools → beide Optionen deaktivieren. Aber Vorsicht: In der App sind diese Optionen offenbar nicht vorhanden – man muss die Webversion nutzen. Zufall? Schwer zu glauben.
Opt-out statt Opt-in, versteckt im Einstellungsmenü, nur per Browser erreichbar. Genau so sieht es aus, wenn ein Unternehmen Nutzerdaten als Rohstoff betrachtet und Transparenz als lästiges Hindernis.
#Kleinanzeigen #Datenschutz #KI #DarkPattern #DSGVO
/kuk
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Kleinanzeigen hat still und heimlich KI-Funktionen aktiviert – ohne sichtbare Ankündigung, ohne aktive Zustimmung. Konversationen mit gewerblichen Verkäufern können analysiert werden, um KI-Antwortvorschläge zu verbessern. Datenschutzrechtlich fragwürdig, kommunikativ eine Frechheit.
Wer das abschalten will: Einstellungen → Datenschutz → KI-Tools → beide Optionen deaktivieren. Aber Vorsicht: In der App sind diese Optionen offenbar nicht vorhanden – man muss die Webversion nutzen. Zufall? Schwer zu glauben.
Opt-out statt Opt-in, versteckt im Einstellungsmenü, nur per Browser erreichbar. Genau so sieht es aus, wenn ein Unternehmen Nutzerdaten als Rohstoff betrachtet und Transparenz als lästiges Hindernis.
#Kleinanzeigen #Datenschutz #KI #DarkPattern #DSGVO
/kuk
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Cancel Your Smart Fridge Sub and It Groans at 2 AM
Maker's 'poltergeist mode' levitates raw meat until you re-subscribe. Payment triggers instant exorcism.
https://alt.andpaper.net/en/articles/20260505-saas-curse-appliance/
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Nuevo artículo sobre las engañosas políticas de "cookies", patrones oscuros (dark patterns) y el lucrativo negocio que supone todo ello. Se agradece difusión y retoot -> https://alt43.es/cookies-por-que-el-banner-de-rechazar-todo-no-sirve-de-nada/
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Nuevo artículo sobre las engañosas políticas de "cookies", patrones oscuros (dark patterns) y el lucrativo negocio que supone todo ello. Se agradece difusión y retoot -> https://alt43.es/cookies-por-que-el-banner-de-rechazar-todo-no-sirve-de-nada/
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Google mostrando que é uma #evilcorp mesmo. Agora para usar recapcha vai ser necessário ter o Google Play Services instalado.
Isso é uma prática anticompetitiva e o CADE não pode permitir isso.Envie um email reclamando para:
[email protected]https://piunikaweb.com/2026/05/07/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement/
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Data Brokers’ and #AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds
https://www.wired.com/story/data-brokers-and-ai-firms-opt-out-forms-are-built-to-fail-report-finds/
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Data Brokers’ and #AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds
https://www.wired.com/story/data-brokers-and-ai-firms-opt-out-forms-are-built-to-fail-report-finds/
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PressProgress’ Luke LeBrun brings us the deep dive into the Centurion Project’s app, modelled closely after an American app known as 10xVotes. As it turns out, 10xVotes is the creation of an American company, known as Voteatron, with ties to the US Republican Party. While the funding of Voteatron and the 10xVotes app is uncertain, these products and entities appear to be tied to the Dark Money and Dark Pattern systems that the Americans have built up over the years.
Names such as Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, Drew Born, and Drew Wierda, have affiliations that lead back to the American Heritage Foundation, and the notorious Project 2025, a planning document for modern American fascism. The article itself deserves a read, and I’ll include notable highlights below.
Remarkably, Parker makes claims to have essentially served as a foreign agent in the US elections as he noted in a Podcast that he was personally responsible for Trump’s election win in Michigan.
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/477915/alberta-separatist-groups-controversial-voter-id-app-has-links-to-us-ambassador-maga-inf
#privacy #ElectionsAlberta #AlbertaUnderSiege #RCMP #DarkMoney #DavidParker #Centurion #ElectionsAlbertaDataLeak #PeteHoekstra #Voteatron #Project2025 #DarkPattern
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PressProgress’ Luke LeBrun brings us the deep dive into the Centurion Project’s app, modelled closely after an American app known as 10xVotes. As it turns out, 10xVotes is the creation of an American company, known as Voteatron, with ties to the US Republican Party. While the funding of Voteatron and the 10xVotes app is uncertain, these products and entities appear to be tied to the Dark Money and Dark Pattern systems that the Americans have built up over the years.
Names such as Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, Drew Born, and Drew Wierda, have affiliations that lead back to the American Heritage Foundation, and the notorious Project 2025, a planning document for modern American fascism. The article itself deserves a read, and I’ll include notable highlights below.
Remarkably, Parker makes claims to have essentially served as a foreign agent in the US elections as he noted in a Podcast that he was personally responsible for Trump’s election win in Michigan.
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/477915/alberta-separatist-groups-controversial-voter-id-app-has-links-to-us-ambassador-maga-inf
#privacy #ElectionsAlberta #AlbertaUnderSiege #RCMP #DarkMoney #DavidParker #Centurion #ElectionsAlbertaDataLeak #PeteHoekstra #Voteatron #Project2025 #DarkPattern
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PressProgress’ Luke LeBrun brings us the deep dive into the Centurion Project’s app, modelled closely after an American app known as 10xVotes. As it turns out, 10xVotes is the creation of an American company, known as Voteatron, with ties to the US Republican Party. While the funding of Voteatron and the 10xVotes app is uncertain, these products and entities appear to be tied to the Dark Money and Dark Pattern systems that the Americans have built up over the years.
Names such as Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, Drew Born, and Drew Wierda, have affiliations that lead back to the American Heritage Foundation, and the notorious Project 2025, a planning document for modern American fascism. The article itself deserves a read, and I’ll include notable highlights below.
Remarkably, Parker makes claims to have essentially served as a foreign agent in the US elections as he noted in a Podcast that he was personally responsible for Trump’s election win in Michigan.
Neither Parker nor his lawyer, Chad Williamson, answered questions from PressProgress about the nature of the Centurion Project’s collaboration with 10xVotes. Parker, however, discussed the subject at length on a recent podcast.
“In my travels in the United States, I’ve met a lot of political organizers and I’ve talked to a lot of people, and I stumbled across this group out of Michigan called 10xVotes,” Parker told a podcast last month.
“I was massively impressed with what they’d done, and I wanted to bring that idea and that methodology to Alberta,” Parker explained. “For almost two years — it’ll be two years this fall — I’ve been working with them, talking with them, trying to build this out.”
“And the result is the Centurion Project.”
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Drew Born, a Grand Rapids commercial real estate broker and the director of Voteatron, is a well-connected Republican activist who runs a group called Michigan Family Action and previously ran for chair of the Michigan GOP.
On social media, Born has promoted the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” plan, posted photos of himself at Turning Point USA galas at Mar-a-Lago and advocated the annexation of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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Huizenga and Hoekstra have a personal history, as well: Huizenga is an old donor to Hoekstra’s past congressional campaigns, and the two served as campaign chairs for Mitt Romney’s 2012 West Michigan leadership team. They also served as board members for the Netherland-America Foundation (Hoekstra was later appointed US ambassador to the Netherlands, where he was accused of foreign interference after hosting an event for a Dutch far-right political party).
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10xVotes’ business model is somewhat murky. The app describes itself as a service provided for free in support of Michigan Republicans and does not charge its users subscription fees, yet it does not publicly solicit donations through its website or indicate who funds it.
“We raise our own money,” Lance Griffin, 10xVotes’ head of public affairs, explained in a presentation to one state GOP group last year. “We don’t ask for any donations, we’ve made this free and available to all of you, all the local county parties and the Michigan Republican party [to] access our website and our data.”
However it funds itself, the group appears to have significant funds at its disposal.
10xVotes was a corporate sponsor at the 2025 Michigan GOP convention (Hoekstra’s final event as party chair) and Parker claims the group spent another $50,000 sponsoring a VIP suite at a 2024 Tucker Carlson Live event in Grand Rapids.
According to Parker’s story, he was also personally responsible for persuading Tucker Carlson to endorse the 10xVotes app that night — and, in turn, perhaps also responsible for Trump’s election victory in Michigan.
“I used all of my political capital with Tucker to get them to endorse it on stage that night,” Parker told a podcast. “We tracked the results of that endorsement, that endorsement resulted in 86,000 people who were historically non-voters voting in that election … that’s almost the victory margin for Trump.”
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Once more: what political party or #eu instance can I bother into making an easy website where you can submit #gdpr infringements, especially of the #deceptivepattern or #darkpattern type? The instance in #Belgium 's form is a slog and I'm unclear on whether they can act on international sites.
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Once more: what political party or #eu instance can I bother into making an easy website where you can submit #gdpr infringements, especially of the #deceptivepattern or #darkpattern type? The instance in #Belgium 's form is a slog and I'm unclear on whether they can act on international sites.
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Here's a #deceptivepattern or #darkpattern from #paypal. Don't want #cookies? Be sure to select some first or you won't be able to save your settings (clicking the X doesn't save your non-selection). Again, wish there was an easy way to report these #gdpr infringements.
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CW: language
OMFG, this is a massive dark pattern.
I went to a networking event this weekend. Presumably one or more people typed my very public email address into LinkedIn, probably to try and find me (even though I told lots of people I don't have LinkedIn).
LinkedIn sent me a people you know email. Rude. I tried to sign in, to verify that I don't somehow have an account.
IT AUTOMATICALLY CREATED AN EMPTY ACCOUNT FOR ME AND THINKS I LIVE IN VALLEJO.
Fuck you LinkedIn. Fuck you so hard.
