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[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI: There is a dark pattern in the mobile app where, if you toggle the opt-out buttons in order from top to bottom, one of them will enable themselves.

Demons.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they are just blatantly retoggling the field, that’s not a dark pattern. But if they are toggling based on a lower toggles “nevermind I didn’t mean the above toggle” or similar, then yeah.

That said, I don’t even know what to call the former.

Edit: The downvotes are a weird reaction to me pointing out this potentially isn’t as benign as dark pattern bullshit.