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I think the amount of crap and dark patterns that is missing from Windows 10 / 11 for European users compared to US users speaks otherwise.
by TonyTrapp 3y ago
I think the amount of crap and dark patterns that is missing from Windows 10 / 11 for European users compared to US users speaks otherwise.
- ultrarunner 3y agoI don't use windows; can you give some examples? (I ask out of curiosity)
- TonyTrapp 3y agoI don't have concrete examples but almost everytime there was an outcry about some new experiment Microsoft was subjecting Windows 11 users to (I think one of them might have been ads in Windows Explorer?), that misfeature was not to be found in European Windows 11 installations. I have also recently seen a video (I think it was on Twitter but I might be wrong) where the setup dialog for some Microsoft service had a dark pattern where it would change an option from opt-in to out-out in real-time depending on which country you selected from a dropdown box. For countries where the GDPR applied, the option changed to opt-in, and it immediately reverted to opt-out if you chose another country with less strong consumer and data protection laws. I'll try to find the video again but no promises. Edit: This is not a video but I think it's the same dialog that I saw in that video. https://twitter.com/AdamSmithKipnis/status/1121221430056603648 https://twitter.com/AdamSmithKipnis/status/11212214300566036...
- arcbyte 3y agoSeems to me like you've proved OP's point: you're now under the illusion that you have increased privacy but in reality you have idea.
- TonyTrapp 3y agoIf GDPR and related regulation caused Microsoft not to add those features in their European releases, I think it is but an illusion that we're now better of than without those features. Are thinks perfect? Hell no. Are they better than before? I'd say yes, definitely.