Re:What Have We Forgotten?
by Propelloni on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @04:03AM
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> The UX of those dialogs is largely a dark pattern because the law did not demand implementation details, yet people blame GDPR because businesses designed them to be a nightmare to use. Yet people applaud for App Tracking Transparency dialogs.
True, it does not mandate specific implementation details but in Recital 32 of the GDPR [1], it demands "request[s] must be clear, concise and not unnecessarily disruptive to the use of the service [...]" which is mostly not given with dark pattern implementations.
True, it does not mandate specific implementation details but in Recital 32 of the GDPR [1], it demands "request[s] must be clear, concise and not unnecessarily disruptive to the use of the service [...]" which is mostly not given with dark pattern implementations.
[1] https://gdpr.eu/Recital-32-Conditions-for-consent/