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Re:Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People ... by nullc on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @09:52PM (#13120105)
My favorite one of those was Android 6's "share my location and the wifi ssids of everyone around me with google button" on a Nexus 5.

It had a [don't ask me again] checkbox that when set greyed out the option to disagree.

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Re:Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People ... by ajnin on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @03:33AM (#13121269)
It's a case of bad UI rather than a dark pattern, if you click 'disagree' it always remembers the decision, the checkbox only affects the 'agree' button.
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