Opt-in by default to make sure every clueless user will never take the steps to shut it down. Typical shitty corpo movement, so common that I'll use it as a reminder to check all my privacy options in every service.
Make it so burdensome to reset the abusive defaults to something privacy-respecting, that people get frustrated and stop bothering.
For the first time in years the Biden Administration had put regulators in place working to stop this kind of stuff, and that will all go down the toilet when the insurrectionist takes office again later this month.
From having met some, I can confidently say that people who put dark patterns into things are among the worst most soulless husks of former humans. The kinds of people you wouldn't trust with keeping your drink safe.
Yes, and that's why I think that the majority of people who work for companies like Google/Alphabet and Facebook/Meta are morally/ethically compromised.
Either that or willfully ignorant.
Like how the majority of the adtech industry probably have the mindset of used-car salespeople.
When companies trying to run unwanted code inside my web browsers are attempting to hide what they're doing by (among other things) using internet domains to serve that crap hiding behind anonymous registrations/registrars, they can all DIAF for all I care.
you're wrong, there's lots of awesome people in the bay area tech, but there's also some bad eggs, but that's always always always a trickle down problem from rabid or deranged management.
Choosing to become part of a corrupt organization makes you an accessory and facilitator of their corrupt behaviour.
Human-beings seem to have an almost limitless ability to rationalize anything, especially their own behaviour. And I'm sure that the people who are part of corrupt organizations have created many of them.
But the fact remains that if all those people left those organizations the corrupt behaviour would cease. QED.
You're examining it in a cartoonish way. Developers don't develop dark patterns, in fact most of the time there's no indication that anything awry could be happening, then it gets changed on them after the fact. Most people are like you and me, trying to put food on the table, not cogs in some evil master plan.
But I'll relent that there is some culpability in the sense that if you join a company known for shady wheelings and dealings, that is indeed on you, the individual.
I've seen a lot of administrations come and go over the years and the speed this one made changes like that especially considering how bad the situation on things like antitrust enforcement had been for decades and how utterly FUBAR his predecessor left it was quite impressive, esp given the efforts of the elephant party and their corrupt corporate buddies to sabotage their attempts to reform it every step of the way.
Remember this is the USA, where corporate profits are always the top priority.
Biden isn’t going to stop this…. His administration is the very idiots who proposed censorship of the internet and news media. Are you forgetting about the “Mary Poppins” like idiot he hired to head his ministry of truth?
such a pain. to add to this: even if you have lockdown mode enabled, downloading an app from the App store could re-enable Apple Games features. like "search for nearby players" or whatevertf. to re-disable, you have to turn off lockdown mode which restarts your device, then re-disable the features.
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u/Stilgar314 7d ago
Opt-in by default to make sure every clueless user will never take the steps to shut it down. Typical shitty corpo movement, so common that I'll use it as a reminder to check all my privacy options in every service.