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The devil has enough advocates. The turn on sync thing is already reported to be a dark pattern. Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18062082 https
by reitanqild 8y ago
The devil has enough advocates.
The turn on sync thing is already reported to be a dark pattern.
Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18062082 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18062082
- tptacek 8y agoYes, lots of people reported it to be a "dark pattern", but I'm very much with Nikita Borisov on this one: https://twitter.com/nikitab/status/1044314072706158593 https://twitter.com/nikitab/status/1044314072706158593 Meanwhile: whatever color you want to shade in the "pattern" with, this subthread starts with a claim that is falsifiable, and also actually false. So please don't pretend like I'm arguing from abstractions here.
- reitanqild 8y agoThanks, I don't use Chrome that much (or at all if I an avoid it) so that's interesting. Still there are the claims of buybackoff that I linked above that options has been set without their consent. So it seems to me there's either a muddy pattern or they even are tweaking things on behalf of users whitout even asking? Edit: also this from the post we are discussing: > However, by clicking on “settings” I was unable to click “undo” - the user interface happily assumed that yes, in fact I wanted to first upload my data. And suddenly, instead of “Last time synced in 2017” I saw the following: “Last time synced on Today”.