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Privacy Zuckering
"“The act of creating deliberately confusing jargon and user-interfaces which trick your users into sharing more info about themselves than they really want to.” (As defined by the EFF). The term “Zuckering” was suggested in an EFF article by Tim Jones on Facebook’s “Evil Interfaces”. It is, of course, named after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg."
Source: http://darkpatterns.org/privacy-zuckering/
- maxbrown 12y agoDefinitely an important dark pattern with real, significant impacts [1] Curious though - is this personally attributable to Zuckerburg? [1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10000872396390444165804578008740578200224 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044416580...
- wmeredith 12y agoI doubt it. Humans hoodwinking others into giving up "the goods" (money, information, time, etc...) is older than the hills. Much like Doc Holiday, who no doubt was preceded by others who were brash with no care for their own life following a terminal diagnoses, just did it best.
- panarky 12y agoOriginal EFF article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebooks-evil-interfaces https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebooks-evil-interfa... At the last Y Combinator Startup School, this guy got a standing ovation. Is it OK to deceive and cynically manipulate people if it builds an awesome business?
- emsy 12y agoThe term is even funnier when you know German, since Zuckering is close to the word "Zuckern" which means "to sugar" or "sugaring". So they basically give you something sweet for you to forget about your privacy. Just like the creepy stranger they are.