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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by cebert on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:17PM (#38729676)
> “If you just clicked the big blue button that said “Got it” to make the pop-up go away, you opted yourself in.”

The screenshots in the article clearly illustrate a concerning trend: users are often subtly coerced into opting into certain features or settings without full awareness. This usually happens when they hurriedly click a prominent button like 'Got it' just to dismiss an annoying pop-up. It highlights a significant problem in UX where clarity and consent are traded for corporate gain. We need for more robust laws governing terms of service agreements, transparent pricing during sign-up processes, and the design of preference dialogs to ensure they are user-friendly and transparent. This is extremely user hostile.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by kevincox on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:32PM (#38729784)
Yeah, this is gross. "Got it" sounds like they were just telling me something, not me agreeing to let them share my personal information. That dialog was clearly designed to make users click "Yes" while giving some sort of ass-cover that they got consent even though they clearly didn't.
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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by tomfutur on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:56PM (#38729990)
At this point I'm so used to evil defaults, reverse psychology could work. Make the "deny all" button bright blue and the "gimme ads and viruses" button pale gray, and you might just catch me.
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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by bongodongobob on Thursday December 21, 2023 @10:24PM (#38730619)
People would still opt in anyway. You have to realize that the only people who care about this are the subset of the population who know who Stallman is. Avg Joe couldn't care less. I think that's the real problem.
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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by Moru on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:20PM (#38729697)
It's also not legal in GDPR lands. It has to be easy to understand, the default have to be to opt out, and you are not allowed to block usage for people that opted out. Oh, and the message has to be short. I have seen "a sentence or two" mentioned as suggestion.
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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by madeofpalk on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:36PM (#38729820)
Within Europe you get a different dialog box that has more explicit buttons, removing any sort of plausible deniability for Google here.

Looks like this https://blog.incogni.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/enhanced...

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by resoluteteeth on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:46PM (#38729906)
Fascinating. This really proves that Google knows that the version it's using elsewhere is a dark pattern.
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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by Moru on Friday December 22, 2023 @03:23AM (#38732154)
Ofcourse they do, they all do. And they´re not even very secretive about it.

Not the first time and not the last time they treat US customers differently because of this.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by cebert on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:32PM (#38729792)
I think we almost always need to assume that dialogs like this are user hostile. The action your brian immediately wants to take is likely not the right action to take.
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