Starbucks and TrustArc add fake cookie processing delay if you don't click agree

So, increase the complexity. A certain number of savvy people will click off immediately, but they were likely too clever to bother with your game, so no love lost there. The ones who stick with it are your ideal targets. They'll wrestle through anything you throw at them to get what they want as long as you keep teasing that there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

However, you also can't make totally random, nonsensical design choices. They need to have a pattern that guides them in the darkness to the actions and outcomes you want most. It's your site after all, and no one can or will tell you how to run it as long as you show those retention and engagement numbers going up, so remember that.

Now that they're spinning in circles clicking on anything and everything trying to understand the labyrinth you've set out for them, you've got nothing to worry about. They've sunk their time and attention into solving this, and you're going to have them come back soon with a new strategy they're excited to try to beat the game. Once they feel like they've beaten you, you've won. They'll keep coming back just to prove to themselves that they've figured it out. They'll search on behalf of their friends and family, rising in their estimation.

Now they smirk and with just a hint of pride say whenever someone complains about how hard your site is to navigate, "Oh, it's not that hard. You've just got to know how it works."

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It does in the context of usability:

> What I remember learning was that any latency of more than 1/10th of a second (100ms) for the appearance of letters after typing them begins to negatively impact productivity (you instinctively slow down, less sure you have typed correctly, for example), but that below that level of latency productivity is essentially flat ...

> That's for visual feedback that a specific input has been received. Then there'd be a standard of responsiveness in a requested operation. If you click on a form button, getting visual feedback of that click (eg. the button displays a "depressed" look) within 100ms is still ideal, but after that you expect something else to happen. If nothing happens within a second or two, as others have said, you really wonder if it took the click or ignored it, thus the standard of displaying some sort of "working..." indicator when an operation might take more than a second before showing a clear effect (eg. waiting for a new window to pop up).

> but this delay is tens of seconds.

Oh, I wasn't aware of that - in that case it's ofcourse unjustified and definitely a "dark pattern".

How many people not liking gaslighting personal-data-theft dark patterns will it take to make it into a law?

We're transitioning from purely physical beings to having a more virtual presence. Virtual crimes are much less visible and have much greater impact at scale than their physical counterparts, identity theft by Equifax breach or a hack, VS physical force or pickpocketing, for example.

On the flip side, this particular dark pattern was caused by regulation. As usual, shades of gray

You'll be fine as long as you're not in the habit of doing things like this that are clearly outwardly hostile to everyone you come into contact with.

Or maybe it shows that they are underfunded relative to the task set them. Which is actually true of many government departments.

Blocking the notice (or ignoring it) is technically equivalent to opting in. Of course, if you're using a competent ad blocker it's likely that the trackers themselves were also blocked, making this a non-issue.

Interestingly there are laws and whistleblower protections against murder and slavery.

What if you have kids who were born here? You're now going to take them back to a place they don't know? Or are you going to let them go to foster care here?

How about if you've bought a house here? You're going to have just a few months to settle everything before you can go.

Isn't this true of every full-time job? But people quit and get new full-time jobs all the time.

Not going to argue about how each person defines literally.

Right, and you don't have to because your continued existence in a country isn't dependent on it. Companies with attitudes like that don't reveal it until it's too late.

Just look at all the engineers at Facebook, or even worse: the defense industry

Does that mean the law doesn't apply to them? You do business in Europe, you follow European laws + the laws of the specific country you're doing business with, doesn't matter what the type of business is.