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Nasty dark pattern on this site. The cookie dialog presents four checkboxes, one of which is disabled (being for "necessary" cookies) and all have a check in a
by LocalH 5y ago
Nasty dark pattern on this site. The cookie dialog presents four checkboxes, one of which is disabled (being for "necessary" cookies) and all have a check in a small square. However, when clicking on the presumably checked boxes, the background of the box turns blue instead, and the check remains. The "necessary" box does not have a blue background when selected (as it's always selected), but the others do.
- naturalauction 5y agoNot sure what you mean, they are all (except for the "necessary" one) unchecked by default. I just clicked "OK to necessary" and it worked fine.
- LocalH 5y agoCorrect. But there is the visual impression that they are all checked by default. I could see a less savvy user clicking on them and them selecting "ok to selected" thinking "well, I deselected the rest of them", due to the difference in background between necessary and the other three buttons when selected. Maybe "nasty" was a bit hyperbolic, I will admit, but it has the potential to be confusing.
- zem 5y agosurprised you'd call that a dark pattern - it's one the best cookie popups i've seen. it had four clearly labelled boxes, the one you needed was checked, the optional ones were unchecked by default, and all four boxes were presented up front, not checked by default and hidden behind a "see advanced options" link. there was also a large and clear button to say "ok to necessary" that changed to "ok to selected" when i clicked to allow functional cookies, and at no point tried to trick me into clicking "ok to all" instead. in fact the only nudge towards selecting "ok to all" was the fact that it was a dark bold blue and "ok to necessary" was a washed out grey.