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Microsoft Needs to Stop Screwing With Local Accounts in Windows 10

… A classic dark pattern. The top section is opt-out, the following is opt-in. If you only read the top section, you'll opt-in to the following section below it and receive information from third parties you did not wish to receive. Credit: Dark patterns are tricks. …

Oct 1, 2019 · Joel Hruska

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Epic Games Fined $520M for Alleged Privacy Violations, Unwanted Charges

… Image: IGDB Separate from its alleged affronts to children and their parents, Epic is said to have used dark patterns—interface design that manipulates users into doing something they wouldn’t have otherwise done—to dupe Fortnite players into making purchases they didn’t really want. …

Dec 20, 2022 · Adrianna Nine