> The longstanding root of the problem is that we're relying on software that is under the control of an adversarial party, especially for creating a UI.
One of the original ideas of the "semantic web" was that the entities that provide data and the entities that display the data should be decoupled and freely combinable by the user.
That idea didn't gain particularly large support with website developers.
I wonder why... /s
Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:57PM
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> the entities that provide data and the entities that display the data should be decoupled and freely combinable by the user
Honest question: does Google AMP [1] fit this mold?
Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet
by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:04AM
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Isn't that still tightly coupled from the publisher to Google?
Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet
by always_good on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:30PM
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Because there isn't much incentive to do something that makes it easier to not get paid for your content?
It already rubs me the wrong way when Google scrapes content from sites. I'm not surprised the dream failed if that's what it was.
"/s" at the end of a comment means the author was being sarcastic ;)
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To make things worse UI is still a largely unsolved matter. Imagine being in the time of tillers instead of steering wheels but somehow splice in privacy and personal data. The more I read about this the more everything feels like a bad scifi novel.
What do you mean by "UI is still a largely unsolved matter"?
The way I see it, UI was solved somewhen in the 70s. Since then, we're only redoing the same building blocks with more or less glitter, and composing them in the same usual ways.
The problem is, really, that user-hostile interfaces are designed on purpose, to trick users.
It will be interesting to see where the GDPR goes, especially with regards to surveillance companies we don't directly interact with. But as long as we continue to do things like utilize a specific retailer's software for researching and planning purchases, the incentives are for that retailer to design that software to push us into funneling as much business (and extraneous personal data!) as possible to themselves.