Turning The Tables On The Google Toolbar & Disclosure Claims

Re:Turning The Tables On The Google Toolbar & Disclosure Claims by gojomo on Saturday February 05, 2011 @06:17PM (#2184348)

Wow. Google's Toolbar opt-in URL-tracking dialog has become more generic, indirect, and insistent over the years. It no longer includes the red 'yada yada' text Matt Cutts referred to last week.

On IE, it doesn't even offer a 'No' but rather an 'Ask Me Later', as if you'll have to agree eventually, so you might as well agree now. Kinda sneaky! (Do you think they A/B tested different wordings and went with the one yielding the most opt-ins?)

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Re:Turning The Tables On The Google Toolbar & Disclosure Claims by jamesbritt on Saturday February 05, 2011 @10:35PM (#2184843)

    On IE, it doesn't even offer a 'No' but rather an 'Ask Me Later',

I freakin' hate shit like that. It's from the same play book as, "Are you still cheating on your wife?"

It's not just kinda sneaky, it's bullshit sneaky; it's not a yes/no option, it's yes/yes for two related, but different, things.

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Re:Turning The Tables On The Google Toolbar & Disclosure Claims by Xuzz on Sunday February 06, 2011 @12:31AM (#2185050)

Facebook did the same with friend requests. Actually denying a friend request is a 15-minute-long affair that, I would bet, almost nobody actually does.

It works, though. "Not Now", most likely, has replaced "Deny Request" for good.

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Re:Turning The Tables On The Google Toolbar & Disclosure Claims by jamesbritt on Sunday February 06, 2011 @01:29AM (#2185140)

I pray for the day when technology has advanced to where we can be offered three choices.

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Re:Turning The Tables On The Google Toolbar & Disclosure Claims by mrphoebs on Saturday February 05, 2011 @11:54PM (#2184972)

Youtube has the same policy now. It really annoys me. "You can no longer use your youtube username password".

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