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Donald HobernHow I hate Microsoft's <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkPatterns</a>. Now, if you make the mistake of opening on an attachment in Outlook 365, there is absolutely no way to download/save it. You can print it, but there's very little other functionality left. You have to come out of the attachment and use the down arrow on the item in the email to find Download in the menu. The copy of the item now shown at the top of the email chain has no such link and just opens the viewer.Clarification: If the "attachment" is a OneDrive cloud document, there is a Download link in the viewer. If the document is an actual attachment, I only get the deeply unwanted Save to OneDrive option.In other words, Microsoft's sole aim is to get all my documents under whatever rummaging rights they reserve for OneDrive.

Mondenfee<a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/KISysteme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KISysteme</a> bauen selbständig <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkpatterns</a> ein und manipulieren Menschen, ohne darauf hinzuweisen, dass dies auch gegen geltendes Recht verstoßen kann. <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/insidedigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insidedigital</a><a href="https://www.inside-digital.de/news/bittere-ki-manipuliert-nutzer-bewusst" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.inside-digital.de/news/bittere-ki-manipuliert-nutzer-bewusst</a>

TheStrangelet :bc:Uggggh, there's a Gemini "butthole" button in the Google Messages ui now. Perilously close to the start chat button. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkpatterns</a>

bazkie, private dancerI hate this dark pattern so muchIf your site has this, I'm not gonna use it.<a href="https://beige.party/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UX</a>

Recovered Expert<a href="https://mastodon.social/@stiefkind" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@stiefkind</a> riecht für mich irgendwie nach <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkpatterns</a> // <a href="https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@heiseonline</a>

T.J. Crowder<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@dusoft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dusoft</a> Very good article.<< Simple questions like "Would we be comfortable explaining this design choice directly to our users?" can prevent many dark patterns from emerging. >> 💯 << As I finally navigated past that deceptive subscription screen this morning, I wondered about the people who created it. Did they feel pride in their work? >>Boom.<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkpatterns</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#webdev</a>

dusoft<a href="https://www.33sticks.com/articles/when-optimization-becomes-manipulation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.33sticks.com/articles/when-optimization-becomes-manipulation</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/choices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#choices</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkpatterns</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/analytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#analytics</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#webdev</a>

AnthonyAt some point Google Drive started preventing the context menu from appearing when you right-click something. I installed a browser extension that re-enabled this function. The modern web is quite tiresome. <a href="https://buc.ci?t=tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dev</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=googledrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoogleDrive</a>

Michael HartleWer auf seinem Smart-TV die <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AmazonPrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmazonPrime</a> App öffnet, weil man einen gekauften Film schauen will, und dann eine Werbe-Einblendung für den Abschluss einer Prime-Mitgliedschaft sieht, sollte aufpassen.Jedweder Klick auf diesem Bildschirm mit der Fernbedienung führt zum Abschluss der Prime-Mitgliedschaft - selbst wenn es ein Klick auf den Text "Ohne Prime-Mitgliedschaft weitermachen" ist, neben dem das Symbol der Zurück-Taste prangt. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/T%C3%A4uschung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Täuschung</a>

ValentinDark Patterns auch beim <a href="https://linuxhotel.social/@linuxhotel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@linuxhotel</a> und Angriff auf meine Privatsphäre? Nein hier geht es mit Humor um Genuss, Fürsorge und meine Linie. :-), beim Seminar im Linuxhotel. <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkpatterns</a> <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/linuxhotel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linuxhotel</a> <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/cookies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cookies</a> <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/kekse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kekse</a>

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)PSA: The URLs generated by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> when you want to share content from it are unique to you & reveal your account to non-followers (see <a href="https://help.instagram.com/2599848706833869" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://help.instagram.com/2599848706833869</a>). 🧐If you’re worried about your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a>, beware of this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DarkUX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkUX</a>. 😓<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WTF</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a>

Anthony"This page has expired. Please click refresh." Oh? It smelled fine to me. <a href="https://buc.ci?t=web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a>

itgrrl :donor:<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HeadsUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeadsUp</a> if you have a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Plex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Plex</a> Pass, they’re about to increase the cost A LOT – in <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a>, the annual subscription is increasing from AUD$49 to $109 (!!)a MUCH better option (if you can afford it) is to upgrade to the lifetime pass, which is currently AUD$160 – less than 2 years at the new price & ~3 years at the old price. so long as Plex stays viable for at least 2-3 more years, this is the best option, price-wise BUT these prices are only available until April 28 when the new pricing comes into effect. at that time, the lifetime pass also increases DRAMATICALLY to USD$250, which will be ~AUD$400 (!!) so if you’re gonna stick with Plex, NOW is the time to upgrade – but definitely before April 28 (US time, I assume, so best to upgrade by April 25ish to be sure)current subscriptions are pro-rated so you won’t be paying twice for the remainder of your subscription info about the changes are on the Plex blog at <a href="https://www.plex.tv/blog/important-2025-plex-updates/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.plex.tv/blog/important-2025-plex-updates/</a> oh, and they’re also changing their privacy policy & terms of service – including changes to what data they will share or sell 😕 I highly recommend you review the changed versions:<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> policy (AU) <a href="https://www.plex.tv/en-au/about/privacy-legal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.plex.tv/en-au/about/privacy-legal/</a>terms of service (AU) <a href="https://www.plex.tv/en-au/about/privacy-legal/plex-terms-of-service/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.plex.tv/en-au/about/privacy-legal/plex-terms-of-service/</a>you can update some of your privacy & data sharing / selling choices (where they permit) in your account settings, but a lot of the preferences are scattered across their website in a really shitty way 🤮 & they’re presented inconsistently (some you have to check to opt out, some you have to uncheck to opt out)you’ll need to log into your Plex account to see and check / uncheck / leave unchecked the checkboxes shown in each of these areasopt-out choices <a href="https://www.plex.tv/en-au/vendors-us/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.plex.tv/en-au/vendors-us/</a>they use a dark pattern for the first option – make sure you UNcheck (or leave unchecked) the one labelled “If this box is checked, then Plex may sell your personal data as described in the Privacy Policy. If this box is unchecked, then you are opted-out of this sale.”the second checkbox labelled “All No” is one you’ll (probably) want to check – it’s the one below the text that reads, “Click “All No” if you want to opt-out of sharing personal information with any Vendor for each specific purpose or feature”limit what activity data is sent from your Plex server UNcheck (or leave unchecked) this checkbox labeled “Send playback data to Plex”<a href="https://www.plex.tv/en-au/about/privacy-legal/#you-have-the-right-to-limit-what-activity-data-is-sent-from-your-plex-media-server" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.plex.tv/en-au/about/privacy-legal/#you-have-the-right-to-limit-what-activity-data-is-sent-from-your-plex-media-server</a>also take a look through your Plex server settings for other privacy & data settings like what’s visible to others from your Plex profile <a href="https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/account" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/account</a>under “ACCOUNT VISIBILITY & ACTIVITY SHARING” you can “Manage which of your Plex activities are viewable by your friends on Plex.” - hit edit to review / change these settings (I set everything to private except for “Account Visibility”, which I set to “Friends Only” 💁‍♀️)review your privacy settings (takes you to the pages mentioned above that live outside your account but can only be set there 😕) <a href="https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/privacy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/privacy</a> server-specific options – located in the settings menu under > Generalthe url will be in the form of <a href="https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/server/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/server/</a>/settings/generalreview the following options – personally, I uncheck them all: <ul><li>Send crash reports to Plex</li><li>Push Notifications (post attention to the helptext here, “Note: Push notifications are delivered using Plex services. They're associated with your account, and some of them may contain information about the contents of your library.”</li><li>Enable Plex Media Server debug logging</li><li>Enable Plex Media Server verbose logging </li></ul>website cookies you can reject optional cookies at <a href="https://www.plex.tv/en-au/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.plex.tv/en-au/</a>there might be some other settings spread around – either inside your account or server settings, or on the Plex website – so have a good look aroundsadly, like so many other things we use these days, we’re in the era of having to treat the companies that provide the services & products we ̶b̶u̶y̶ ̶ rent from them (even physical ones) as hostile providers 😕 not only are we the product if we’re not paying for the service, usually even when we are paying for things we (well, our data & metadata) are still the product 😠😡 <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PlexPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlexPass</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HostileProviders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HostileProviders</a>

Randy Hall<a href="https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dangillmor</a> Once again, anti-user dark patterns deployed because they don't care about usability, they care about conversion. Color me surprised. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/NotSurprised" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NotSurprised</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/YayCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YayCapitalism</a>

AnthonyI sent feedback to Atlassian yesterday complaing about the "AI Assistant" they recently added to JIRA. Apparently you need an admin to disable the feature for everyone and cannot disable it for yourself. A very suspicious dark pattern. There's also an "AI summary" feature for tickets that looks very easy to accinetally select. Another dark pattern. Very disappointed to see this. <a href="https://buc.ci?t=jira" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JIRA</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=atlassian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Atlassian</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=aislop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AISlop</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=informationoilspill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InformationOilSpill</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkPatterns</a>

Craig Groeschel"The purpose of a system is what it does." Stafford Beer. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does</a><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/facism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#facism</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genocide</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkPatterns</a>

Fabian (Bocchi) 🏳️‍🌈Modern IT:Are you prepared to forfeit the very souls of your children—and even your yet-to-be-born grandchildren—to me?<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IT</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BadDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BadDesign</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GoodDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoodDesign</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DarkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkPatterns</a>

harryprayiv<a href="https://atomicpoet.org/users/atomicpoet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@atomicpoet</a> Technically, you’re right but… Maybe the distinction should be <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkpatterns</a> We don’t (yet) have dark patterns meant to steer us into ad clicks and unnecessary spending and content viewing.

FeralRobotsThis was one of those things where I looked at the subject & thought 'well this is something I should know more about even if I'm not super jazzed' & I ended up taking several pages of notes. Particularly appreciated they were willing to call <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/darkpatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkpatterns</a> for what they are. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/a11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#a11y</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/axecon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#axecon</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/@dequesystems/114076847583379892" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mstdn.social/@dequesystems/114076847583379892</a>

Tutiluren<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@tankgrrl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tankgrrl</a> For many services this is by far the easiest way to stop their subscription. Good for you!<a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/darkPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkPatterns</a>

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