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I'm worried that this regulation is overreaching and will kill innovation in dark patterns. Yet another example of how Europe trails behind the US by allowing their busybody lawmakers to get in the way of progress. If you can't trick your subscribers into being unable to unsubscribe any more, how will companies survive?

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If we don't innovate in dark patterns, China will.

Poor trillionaires, what shall they do? I guess buy a more modest yacht, that’s what. Pure cruelty!

Listen, they're the ones holding our society up. Without the money trickling down to us from all the chefs and cleaners they employ, we'd have to scavenge in the wilderness for voles.

We really should think twice before messing with the lifeblood of our economy.

I can't tell if this is satire. Some people really believe stuff like this.

And why shouldn't we? Do you know how bad your life would be without Mark Bezos? Where would you derive meaning from, if not the quarterly Amazon earnings call?

Humans are inherently amoral; we need a higher power to give us morality, and the mission statement of Meta is where we should all get our spiritual guidance from.

My life is just fine without Mark Bezos, thanks. Never heard of him. Is he some relation of Elon Zuckerberg?

Brother to Jeff Gates?

It's all about creating a chain of value. Why should the chefs and cleaners have to expend energy hunting for their own voles?

Far better to allow predators to take them to the cleaners.

(/s for if the idiom doesn't translate to your local language!)

Mister President Reagan, it's past your gravetime already.

boy you almost got me, ha. I need to get off the internet

Good luck unsubscribing from the Internet. Our dependency on it is the final boss of dark patterns.

An old web surfer paddles past a pair of young social media users. “Morning youngsters! How's the internet today?”

The two users look at each other, puzzled for a few moments. Eventually one leans towards the other's ear and whispers “What the heck is the internet?”

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