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[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

We've done it. Humanity has achieved peak possible asshole design during the perfect alignment of the planets.

We can now create the Torment Nexus.

[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I kinda don’t think creating the Torment Nexus sounds like the best idea.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 3 points 3 hours ago

It's fine. I read all about it in the classic novel "Never Build the Torment Nexus".

Come to think of it, I wonder if finishing the novel would help me learn how to build the Torment Nexus...? Oh, well. I'll be too busy to finish the novel, since I need to spend all my time building the Torment Nexus.

[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Do you listen to Behind the Bastards?

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

I can't even tell for sure which state that switch is in! This is a well-known UI design issue.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

This ....

These "would you like us to ransack your home?" type questions irk the shit out of me. OF COURSE NOT! NOBODY WANTS THIS! WHY EVEN ASK?

Why is any of this shit legal to begin with? Did we collectively fall asleep or something? Why is it just casually accepted that companies will be able to take your data and sell it to brokers that with mixing and matching can know more about you than youndo yourself? Then add to this that Nazi Germany would gave LOVED all this data for their genetic cleansing but thank go we dont have fascism anymore so we wont have to worry about our data falling into the hands of insane murderers, at least.

Right?

Seriously, death to data brokers, all of em

[-] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

Asshole design for sure, what a great example of terrible UX writing.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 8 points 14 hours ago

i see this a lot now. tell us if you would like us to not not use your undata.

[-] Cherry@piefed.social 10 points 15 hours ago

Just leave the site if you can. Don’t reward bad sites.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

I have screenshotted and sent to customer service to ask every time this happens, so far they have all said sliding to no means do not sell and I agree this is remarkable asshole design. It hurts my head!

[-] fdnomad@programming.dev 30 points 23 hours ago

I'm convinced all of these consent forms are just placebo anyway

[-] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, better to use anti-telemetry than "trust me bro".

[-] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 6 points 14 hours ago

uBO Gang here!

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 day ago

This is what people mean when they say dark patterns. There’s now decades of research on ergonomic and intuitive interface design. For a brief time there was a general effort to make things more usable but we’ve reached the point where advertisings penetration into the internet is so deep the opposite occurs; usability is purposely hampered to trick you into consenting for things they’re aware you would otherwise never want

[-] Ghoelian@piefed.social 29 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure this is explicitly forbidden by eu cookie law. But of course barely anyone enforces that stuff.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 67 points 1 day ago

Pressing the back button is the correct option. Better stray away from that site.

[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago
[-] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 14 hours ago

Use Wayback Machine, or uBlock Origin and destroy that banner.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago

Haha, tricks on you. They'll sell your information either way.

[-] Pratai@piefed.ca 1 points 1 hour ago
[-] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago

my conspiracy theory is they want you confused and sitting on this screen for a minute so they can collect all your info and sell it before you try to opt out

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Ghostery, along with blocking trackers, has a "Never Consent" feature that declines these automatically. Since it understands the underlying platform rather than the text shown to the user, it should give the right answer (and it'll block the tracking cookies anyway).

That said, Ghostery has had some telemetry drama in the past and not everyone trusts them, so despite this being super useful, don't install it without a bit of research.

[-] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 6 points 14 hours ago

I'd just prefer uBO with Consent-o-Matic cookie blocking

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Oh, I was under the impression Consent-o-Matic can only agree to cookies, rather than refuse them?

[-] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 12 hours ago
[-] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Niiiiice, this lets me get away from Ghostery - thanks for the heads-up!

[-] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 11 hours ago

🤗🤗🤗

[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

I forgot about ghostery. Looked into them. Seems they’re still selling data as a business model.

However I did find this extension and I’m wondering if it’s legit or not… not too many people using it, it seems… https://github.com/mjkuniversal/auto-reject-cookies

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Nice find. It's a Claude project to at least some degree, which is a bit of a bad smell for me, but I agree that people should be cautious about Ghostery so it's good to have options.

[-] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

I guess this is what you see, when the webpage decides "Even a random 50% of the people, is better than what we would get if people could choose what they preferred."

A very good sign, about the page's intent.

[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

It’s TheNation.com if that’s any help. I probably should have included that in the screenshot.

[-] lol_idk@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2026
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