Re:Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads
by sofixa on Saturday February 19, 2022 @02:49AM
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It's not an open invitation, in fact those dark patterns are explicitly forbidden in that law :) And many of them have been ruled to be against the law, but compliance is a bit slow.
Yes, and the result of that nuance is less privacy and more annoyance. It's an open invitation for sites to use dark patterns to get you to "agree" to tracking. (In fact they "have" to use dark patterns because they specifically aren't allowed to offer you anything in exchange). Either banning tracking outright or requiring sites to obey the DNT header would make much more sense.