>Western internet users may be most familiar with deceptive design patterns in a niche like cookie consent banners which typically (intentionally) fail to offer

>Western internet users may be most familiar with deceptive design patterns in a niche like cookie consent banners which typically (intentionally) fail to offer parity between the ease of agreeing to give up your privacy to the data industrial adtech complex and refusing tracking — making the latter horribly hard (if they even offer that choice at all). Techcrunch does precisely this and has proceeded to store no less then 100 cookies on my browser. Thank goodness i have an adblocker or who knows what horrendous spam i'd have had to put up with just to read the article.