Re:I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern
by dtech on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:13AM
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Was this in US or EU? I wouldn't be surprised if it is EU but theoretically this should be so GDPR non-compliant that Merkel personally throws you out.
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Re:I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern
by danpalmer on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:19AM
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EU. Absolutely non-compliant and I don't think they could have cared less.
We had to get special sign of from their senior leadership to implement the server-side tracking because it meant they could lose out on revenue if we didn't get it right.
Ironically the server-side version bypassed adblockers/tracking protections (all we did was ping back after checkout with the total order value, no user data), so it was likely that they would make more revenue given than ~50% of users have some sort of blocking in their browsers.
Re:I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern
by ashtonkem on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:19AM
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CCPA probably makes that illegal, which gives devs with a conscience a nice out: “that is wildly illegal if we do it to anyone in CA, we will have to develop it my way for them anyways, and it’s cheaper to support only one system”