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>Upgrade to version 1905 or higher of Office 365 ProPlus and set the telemetry level to the 'Neither' option. Well that's a dark pattern if I've ever seen one.
by contravariant 7y ago
>Upgrade to version 1905 or higher of Office 365 ProPlus and set the telemetry level to the 'Neither' option.
Well that's a dark pattern if I've ever seen one. Worse it suggests that before version 1905 there were only two options for telemetry, and neither of them was no telemetry.
- pndy 7y agoA "funny" thing: in Vista and 7 the modal window for Improvement Program had a "Yes, I want to participate in the program." option set as default and you had to press bottom option twice so the save button would reactivate from grayed out state and you could refuse the participation. This little thing worked in such manner each time no matter of the build (original or with service pack), showing up to few hours after setting up fresh Windows installation and I'd say it was aimed at ordinary user who wouldn't try clicking twice on the option to see if it could be changed. There was this report posted last year [1] where Norwegian Consumer Council was reviewing dark patterns used at facebook, Google and Windows. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17406186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17406186