My wording was indeed inappropriate (I'm not a native speaker), "dark patterns" are subjective but I'd say: - the less privacy-friendly option is a big shiny

My wording was indeed inappropriate (I'm not a native speaker), "dark patterns" are subjective but I'd say: - the less privacy-friendly option is a big shiny button, while privacy controls are behind a small greyed link - hiding the privacy options behind many interactions, basically making it as frustrating as possible to find the opt-out, I always find that amusing to read "We value your privacy" while I spend so much time looking for actual control over my privacy - all of the "partners" checked by default (non GDPR compliant), with no easy way to deselect all ("select all" is, however, usually an option) - bait and switch: when you go to partners' settings, checking the checkbox is actually requesting to opt-out, but to know that you need to read a long, grey paragraph with a small font size at the very end of the list - punishing the user by making it unnecessarily slow to opt-out, most of them are legitimate from my finding, but I've noticed a few fake loadings (zero requests in the network tab), it may simply be due to poor engineering though (Hanlon's razor) - redirecting the user from the original content after he opted-out, also feels like an intended punishment to me (but same as before: can be explained by poor engineering) The list is non-exhaustive, but I wish I had better writing abilities to share my observations in a Medium article or something like that.