I should clarify that 110ms is happening for all requests.
Tested with this: https://ybin.me/p/53f0aa4e1204b470#c561Frz6wpKkfvsTklDdZFOer...
and got this: https://ybin.me/p/1e68f80f6910ba0d#USqFo3Loksx5rHQIe16NHp299...
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Tested with this: https://ybin.me/p/53f0aa4e1204b470#c561Frz6wpKkfvsTklDdZFOer...
and got this: https://ybin.me/p/1e68f80f6910ba0d#USqFo3Loksx5rHQIe16NHp299...
Here is the output for 100 reqs: https://ybin.me/p/1e68f80f6910ba0d#USqFo3Loksx5rHQIe16NHp299...
We do need an open discussion in this matter, and actions must be taken as a result of the discussion. While regulators are likely to be pressed by the business to relax the rules, designers and behavioural researchers ofter don't think about long-term consequences of their choices, so there is a need for a third group there. People who see through the tricks and can recognise dark patterns.
The problem has become so prevalent that even tech-savvy folk sometimes gets tricked into giving up bits of their private data. Where does that leave the average consumer? It's evidently exploiting the fact that physically people just don't have the time and expertise to parse and understand what is being forced upon them.
As for Dark-Patterns-As-A-Service companies, there must be a way to detect and block their software using browser plugins. Isn't this effectively malware?
Email can be fixed only gradually. There is no way the world will stop using it and move overnight to something else, no matter how great. As a related topic, I propose a dedicated footer field to put an end to emails containing two sentences and several meters of logos, badges, ads! and legal notes, which clutter our email threads and JIRAs. There is substantial potential in cutting down mental effort and IT resources necessary to process and store it.
Most malware today is not aimed to destroy local data, but rather to exfiltrate it. Instead of bloated antivirus software a more effective and lightweight solution is curated hosts files. No need to rely on external DNS, which can be hijacked. I'm working on electron-based desktop tool that does just that.
Another dark pattern I discovered on ala.co.uk, a popular GAP insurer in the UK. Their Get A Quote page is silently siphoning data from a complex form which triggers sending the whole form on field change, before you press Send. Beware of auto-filling by the browser!
And there is that: https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/no-cookie-consent-walls-an... Legislation vs clear guidelines and enforcement.
I guess the strategy is to wear us down with nagging, nudging and whatnot to make a mistake, and once our data is out, there is no reversing it.
They push the responsibility of getting rid of unwanted stuff in our mailboxes to us. It's not a single company doing this, but most of them. That's sometimes dozens of emails a week! We shouldn't waste our time reading, parsing and fighting the unsubscribe forms - many times fortified with cookie-consent walls!
The average internet user will not do that anyway, so the spammers rely on user's laziness and dulled senses, just like ad blindness, so they slowly start to accept this sick situation as the new normal. For us it becomes the new normal. For our children - the only normal.