Dark patters shouod be illegal to use.
Zikeji@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Cookie consent dialogs can fuck off and die in general. Always using dark patterns to try and trick you into choosing the worst option.
Mac@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Ah yes. More regulation for stuff barely understandable to boomer politicians.
I think we should eliminate profit incentives instead.
Mac@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Ah yes. We’ll just change the system as a whole that the wealthy elite and their politicians work to keep in place and definitely not implement any stop-gap solutions in the meantime.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Fair enough. We could try both and see which one sticks.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Implementing them, whenever a customer’s site goes live, makes me feel like a tool. The worst part is the feedback, when the customer wants the big red “only accept essential cookies” button to look like a text link almost the same color as the background.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
“not possible, it will break functionality. However if you want I can rewrite the entire site but it’s going to cost more and take a while”
Then you spend the next month doing nothing while profiting off their data greed.