> That is a feature. I want to know that, I want to see how far in dark patterns I get the idea, but is this really what you want, all the time? Maybe you do,

> That is a feature. I want to know that, I want to see how far in dark patterns I get the idea, but is this really what you want, all the time? Maybe you do, but if I'd ask myself the same question - I think I'd disagree. If I want to satisfy my interest in how scummy some website is, I sure can do my research. But typically I just don't care, it's an one-click stay. Some random article or some random website happens to pique my interest, I check it out, and all those banners and stuff are misfeatures because I don't care who runs this website and what they're willing to do to earn some money - not for a split second. All I want is to have what I came for, with the best possible signal-to-noise ratio. So read (or maybe I click the "reader view" if the site is too bad), see if the content that I came for is what I wanted, and close the tab. Maybe the content suggests that the site is really good (happens if I notice I've already seen that site more than once or twice) so I'm enticed to stay - then I'd do my research whenever it's worth to bookmark it or subscribe to something, etc.. But that's rare. This is why I have an ad-blocker - because life is too short to be constantly distracted with all those ads. Even though some can argue they're an indicator of website scumminess. Let me judge that from the actual content, not the paraphernalia around it. And this is the logic why I want to see that utopic world where browsers are back to being user agents, acting on my behalf and my instructions for my personal benefit. Sadly, I doubt this is ever going to be the case. But I do want my browser to automatically act based on the decisions I've informed it about. And I don't particularly mind if it would explicitly ask me to pick "yes or no" on a few questions the very first time I start it, if that's what's needed for the consensus. I think all the noise about DNT from the ad industry was about it having some default setting - okay, if it would ask me "do you want to be tracked? yes/no" (or even "yes/no/it's complicated, show me some advanced settings...") one single time I start the browser - I guess I can live with that, if this would get those banners out and my choice will be properly respected everywhere.