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It's the latest and greatest in dark UI.

The same goes for the fake progress spinners that take ~30 seconds to 'store' your privacy settings if you want to opt out, and for some reason don't take time at all if you just accept.

'services' like oath and trustarc (TRUSTe) should be illegal.

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I love that you think that Oath is a privacy settings service and not an enormous media company. These dark patterns are hurting their brand.

You're right.

So many times I had a bad privacy consent experience while seeing their logo under it. Now I automatically associate Oath with that bad experience. I guess that's why I assumed Oath to be some privacy settings service similar to Trustarc.

I refuse to use any Oath sites to the point where I block many of them in my hosts file now. Sadly means I can’t read this article. I think I’ll live.

I feel the same and now avoid techcrunch like the plague. Fortunately Hackaday published a piece on this subject too, if you still have the interest.

https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/maker-media-ceases-operation...

Thanks!

In EU, they are. I'm still hopeful that authorities will start fining websites that use this. Someday...

There was an article on HN a while back about regulatory capture in Ireland. Apparently GPDR complaints flow through them, and they ignore (almost) all the GDPR complaints. In turn, that protects the tax haven scheme they’ve established for data centers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741976

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