Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:<p>"<a href="https://graz.social/tags/Darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Darkpatterns</span></a> killed my wife’s <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows11</span></a> installation"<br><a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">osnews.com/story/143376/dark-p</span><span class="invisible">atterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/</span></a></p><p>Honestly, how can anyone who is still able to choose freely, select <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> as his/her operating system of choice?</p><p>You can't control the multi-fold <a href="https://graz.social/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a>-bondage and re-enabling disabled services any more. (See also <a href="https://www.heise.de/en/news/Windows-MS-Word-now-automatically-saves-to-the-cloud-10623690.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heise.de/en/news/Windows-MS-Wo</span><span class="invisible">rd-now-automatically-saves-to-the-cloud-10623690.html</span></a> )</p><p>Therefore, everything you have on a <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> host needs to be considered public. 🤷 </p><p>More about some selected incidents: <a href="https://karl-voit.at/cloud/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">karl-voit.at/cloud/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/publicvoit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publicvoit</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/OneDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OneDrive</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Word" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Word</span></a></p>
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Jonathan Kamens 86 47<p>Six months ago I moved some of my retirement money into a CD at a local bank, <a href="https://federate.social/tags/EasternBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EasternBank</span></a>, at 4.21%. That CD matured yesterday and I called today (during the "grace period") to find out what the rate was going to be for the new rollover CD.<br>They said that since I called and asked, they can roll it over into a new CD with the same rate if I want, but if I hadn't called it would have rolled over into a CD at 0.05%.<br>yhgtbfkmwts<br><a href="https://federate.social/tags/banking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>banking</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/darkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>darkPatterns</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/scam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scam</span></a></p>
Daniel Detlaf<p>Microsoft patch day... sure enough, I check my privacy settings, it's turned on personalized ads.</p><p>How is that legal? Is this not tantamount to entering into a contract on someone else's behalf (agreeing to share data) with no authority to represent them?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/motherfuckers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>motherfuckers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPatterns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a></p>
Downes 🍁<p>It's interesting. After every Teams meeting a popup appears asking 'how was the quality of the audio/video?' along with a five star rating. I always give it five stars, not because it was great, but because if you give it anything other than five stars it grills you to have you say exactly what was wrong with it. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>darkpatterns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/baddata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>baddata</span></a></p>
Zuri (he/him) 🕐 CET<p>Reacted like someone with zero critical faculty, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GitHub</span></a> 👏🏻 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/noAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>noAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/genAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/promptEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>promptEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vibeCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vibeCoding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ChatBots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatBots</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/aiChatBot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aiChatBot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ensh11n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ensh11n</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/gaslighting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaslighting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DeceptivePatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeceptivePatterns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/darkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>darkPatterns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/automaticOptIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automaticOptIn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/trainingLLMsIsTheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trainingLLMsIsTheft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HumansBeforeProfit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumansBeforeProfit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/corporateGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporateGreed</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/predatoryCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>predatoryCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/chokepointCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chokepointCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/intellectualProperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualProperty</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Claude’s update relies on a striking pop-up with a large, black "Accept" button. The data sharing toggle is tucked away, switched on by default, and framed positively ("You can help..."). A faint "Not now" button and hard-to-find instructions on changing the setting later complete the manipulative design.</p><p>These interface tricks, known as dark patterns, are considered unlawful under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and by the European Court of Justice when used to obtain consent for data processing. Pre-checked boxes do not count as valid consent under these rules.</p><p>The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has also stressed in its guidelines on deceptive design patterns that consent must be freely given, informed, and unambiguous. Claude’s current design clearly fails to meet these standards, making it likely that Anthropic will soon draw the attention of privacy regulators."</p><p><a href="https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-uses-a-questionable-dark-pattern-to-obtain-user-consent-for-ai-data-use-in-claude/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">the-decoder.com/anthropic-uses</span><span class="invisible">-a-questionable-dark-pattern-to-obtain-user-consent-for-ai-data-use-in-claude/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Anthropic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropic</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chatbots</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Claude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Claude</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPatterns</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataProtection</span></a></p>
Rapha3l<p>Gilt das auch schon als Darkpattern?</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodontech.de/@gsalvisberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gsalvisberg</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@martinsteiger" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>martinsteiger</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://smnn.ch/@nohillside" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nohillside</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://social.g2od.ch/tags/darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>darkpatterns</span></a> <a href="https://social.g2od.ch/tags/lidl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lidl</span></a> <a href="https://social.g2od.ch/tags/agb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>agb</span></a> <a href="https://social.g2od.ch/tags/schweiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>schweiz</span></a></p>
Scott Murray :neurodiversity:<p>hey guys just jumping in here to say that <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/whatsapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whatsapp</span></a> is sketchy AF</p><p>"your personal messages are end-to-end encrypted”<br>= group messages (the primary use case for whatsapp) are NOT encrypted</p><p>"advanced chat privacy was turned on”<br>= wait, i thought u just implied that messages are E2E encrypted. what could "advanced" privacy possibly mean???</p><p>"people in this chat can't save media to their device automatically”<br>= dude what's with all the vague qualifiers like "automatically”? it feels like you are counting on users to never make it to the end of that sentence, leaving them with the impression that they can safely share private pics and those won't be saved or re-shared by anyone, let alone used by meta for surveillance, profiling, and ML model training</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPatterns</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a></p>
Richi Jennings<p>Sen. Hassan is on the warpath.</p><p>At least 35 data brokers employed <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPatterns</span></a> to discourage <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Californian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Californian</span></a>s from exercising their privacy rights. Researchers say the companies hid legally required web pages from <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a>—so people can’t find them.</p><p>This U.S. senator is not at all happy, accusing the firms of “requiring people to navigate byzantine labyrinths.” In <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/SBBlogwatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SBBlogwatch</span></a>, we join Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) in her trisyllabic dissatisfaction.</p><p>@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: <a href="https://securityboulevard.com/2025/08/data-brokers-act-badly-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">securityboulevard.com/2025/08/</span><span class="invisible">data-brokers-act-badly-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/CCPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CCPA</span></a></p>
Tracy Rosenberg<p>What we call "<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>darkpatterns</span></a>". The <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DROP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DROP</span></a> database scheduled to come online in 2026 will combat this for Californians. "Of 499 <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/databrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>databrokers</span></a> registered with the state of California, The Markup and CalMatters found 35 instructing search engines to ignore pages with instructions on how consumers can remove their data' <a href="https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/08/companies-make-it-hard-to-delete-personal-data/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">calmatters.org/economy/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/2025/08/companies-make-it-hard-to-delete-personal-data/</span></a></p>
Luc :bc: :bc: :bc: :bc: :bc:<p>Deze had ik nog niet eerder gezien: de schakelaar die de verkeerde kant op schakelt. Of de verkeerde kant op kleurt, zie daar maar eens achter te komen.<br><a href="https://toot.community/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPatterns</span></a></p>
Frederik Borgesius<p>New paper, open access. </p><p>‘If Deceptive Patterns are the problem, are Fair Patterns the solution?’</p><p>By Tim de Jonge, Hanna Schraffenberger, Jorrit Geels, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Marie-Sophie Simon & me. </p><p><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715275.3732199" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3715275</span><span class="invisible">.3732199</span></a></p><p><a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>darkpatterns</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/facct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>facct</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/deceptivepatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deceptivepatterns</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/manipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manipulation</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
Jens Vierbuchen<p>Diesen Donnerstag um 20 Uhr im <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@c4" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>c4</span></a></span>:<br>»Labyrinth der Konzerne – Dark Patterns und Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie.<br>In unserem Diskussionsformat Arbitrary Bytes im <a href="https://euskirchen.social/tags/C4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C4</span></a>, möchten wir mit euch über die Bedeutung der Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie und der daraus resultierenden Designmuster und ihrer Folgen für unsere geistige Gesundheit und unsere Gesellschaft sprechen«<br><a href="https://koeln.ccc.de/updates/2025-07-31-ABCCCC_Dark_Patterns.xml" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">koeln.ccc.de/updates/2025-07-3</span><span class="invisible">1-ABCCCC_Dark_Patterns.xml</span></a></p><p><a href="https://euskirchen.social/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPatterns</span></a> <a href="https://euskirchen.social/tags/K%C3%B6ln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Köln</span></a> <a href="https://euskirchen.social/tags/Ehrenfeld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ehrenfeld</span></a></p>
kaffeeringe.de<p><strong>Social Media Verbot für Kinder und Jugendliche?</strong></p><p>Social Media erst ab 16 Jahre! Das fordert Schleswig-Holsteins Ministerpräsident Daniel Günther. Mittlerweile hat seine ehemalige Kabinettskollegin, Bundesbildungsministerin Karin Prien, eine Arbeitsgruppe eingesetzt, die sich dieses Thema annehmen soll. Zeit, die Argumente zu sortieren.</p><p><a href="https://kaffeeringe.de/2025/07/24/social-media-verbot-fuer-kinder-und-jugendliche/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kaffeeringe.de/2025/07/24/soci</span><span class="invisible">al-media-verbot-fuer-kinder-und-jugendliche/</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/addicitive-design/" target="_blank">#AddicitiveDesign</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/altersgrenze/" target="_blank">#Altersgrenze</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/australien/" target="_blank">#Australien</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/cdu/" target="_blank">#CDU</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/coppa/" target="_blank">#COPPA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/daniel-guenther/" target="_blank">#DanielGünther</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/dark-patterns/" target="_blank">#DarkPatterns</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/eperso/" target="_blank">#ePerso</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/eu/" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/eva-moehler/" target="_blank">#EvaMöhler</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/facebook/" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/google/" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/hacker-ethik/" target="_blank">#HackerEthik</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/instagram/" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/jim-studie/" target="_blank">#JIMStudie</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/karin-prien/" target="_blank">#KarinPrien</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/kim-studie/" target="_blank">#KIMStudie</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/mastodon/" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/medien/" target="_blank">#Medien</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/medienanstalt-hamburg-schleswig-holstein/" target="_blank">#MedienanstaltHamburgSchleswigHolstein</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/medienpaedagogik/" target="_blank">#Medienpädagogik</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/medienrat/" target="_blank">#Medienrat</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/public-value/" target="_blank">#PublicValue</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/schleswig-holstein/" target="_blank">#SchleswigHolstein</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/social-media/" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/sparkasse/" target="_blank">#Sparkasse</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/tiktok/" target="_blank">#TikTok</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/twitter/" target="_blank">#Twitter</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://kaffeeringe.de/tag/usa/" target="_blank">#USA</a></p>
Alex0007<p>Dark pattern from the Temu app: it checks whether notifications for one channel are turned off and then starts to push them into a newly created channel with another generic name.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Temu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Temu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPatterns</span></a></p>
Jonathan Kamens 86 47<p>Somehow the fuckers at <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Avast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Avast</span></a> tricked my elderly uncle years ago into subscribing to an auto-renewing $100/yr VPN service he does not need and does not use.<br>I found out only because I monitor his email and the renewal failed because his credit card expired.<br>1/2<br><a href="https://federate.social/tags/scam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scam</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPatterns</span></a></p>
juliette<p>Having fun booking a train ticket with SNCF Connect. Holy dark pattern, Batman!<br>The text says "Do not receive offers or discounts from SNCF Connect to travel in France or in Europe." <br>Do I toggle or not?<br><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/BadDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPatterns</span></a></p>
marado<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ciberlandia.pt/@paulasimoes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>paulasimoes</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bolha.one/@ointersexo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ointersexo</span></a></span><br><a href="https://ciberlandia.pt/tags/darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>darkpatterns</span></a> everywhere :-(</p><p>How can this be legal?</p>
Tarnkappe.info<p>📬 Epic Games Strafe: Das düstere Spiel mit Dark Patterns<br><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Rechtssachen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rechtssachen</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPatterns</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/EpicGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EpicGames</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Fortnite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fortnite</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/FTC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FTC</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Verbraucherschutz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Verbraucherschutz</span></a> <a href="https://sc.tarnkappe.info/88399c" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sc.tarnkappe.info/88399c</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Paco Hope #resist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@lolgop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lolgop</span></a></span> I support this idea and I will probably sign the petition (I’m a TM customer. Still mulling over whether I want to support Verizon or AT&T instead). </p><p>I support <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TeslaTakedown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeslaTakedown</span></a> and participated in one of their protests. But look at how scummy this petition is.</p><p>First I notice that they inform me that I “may receive” email from a bunch of groups. That’s weird because it implies uncertainty. </p><p>Then I notice this microscopic, grey-on-grey text that says “edit subscription preferences”. I haven’t signed in to this site, so how do I even have any preferences to edit? I tap it and it expands to an already-opted-in list of ELEVEN different orgs who will all feel entitled to spam me because they will point to this as the time I affirmatively opted in to receive all their emails.</p><p>How many petition signers even see that, much less click it? This is a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DarkPattern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPattern</span></a> and this is really slimy. The ONLY way to be slimier would be to opt me in without even telling me. </p><p>The word “preferences” is plural, implying I have more than one preference. In practice my choice is to accept email from all 11 or none. It’s a single preference, hidden from view as much as possible.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPatterns</span></a></p>
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