Posted on 06/25/2019 8:30:01 AM PDT by Mariner
Even if you’ve never heard the phrase “dark patterns,” you’re almost certainly familiar with them. They’re the sneaky ways online companies trick you into agreeing to stuff you’d normally never assent to.
Classic example: You encounter a prompt asking if you want to sign up for some program or service, and the box is already checked. If you don’t uncheck it — that is, if you do nothing — you’re enrolled.
A bipartisan bill has been introduced in Congress that would prohibit websites and online platforms (hi, Facebook!) from employing such deliberately deceptive tactics, and would empower the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on sites that keep trying to fool people.
The Deceptive Experiences to Online User Reduction Act (a.k.a. the DETOUR Act) is the brainchild of Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.). They’re hoping the legislation will be included as part of sweeping privacy regulations now under consideration in the Senate Commerce Committee.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Who agrees to something they don't know what it is?
Anything that will make life more difficult for
Zuckerberg & Co. has my full support.
Well... I got married once.
One more thing to worry about.
“A bipartisan bill has been introduced in Congress that would prohibit websites and online platforms from employing such deliberately deceptive tactics, and would empower the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on sites that keep trying to fool people.”
Sounds good to me. It’s not a matter of stupid people so much as busy inattentive and older people.
You have a point, but the context is different.
Proposed legislation won’t work with websites hosted outside of the USA.
>>In the run up to election season you will see many more bills to prevent stupid people from being stupid.
Who agrees to something they don’t know what it is?<<
You know what they say: You can make it foolproof but you can’t make it damnfoolproof.
Dark Patterns, Dark Web, Deep State. Que the never-ending spooky music.
Does anyone more in the know that I (LS, for example) want to venture a guess if anything is being done in the PDJT administration on Facebook, Google, Twitter monopolies and control? I hope so.
Glen Beck, who is only good 40-50% of the time, had a great dissertation on Facebook/Google today and the 2020 election...really scary stuff.
No thanks.
I trust NOTHING “bipartisan”, and certainly nothing from LA Times.
Here’s an article 19 months ago telling us we should trust Deb Fischer and not call Ace McCain a RINO.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/358812-stop-calling-mccain-corker-flake-rinos
BUT... it had two things checked: make bling my default search engine and home page. I de-clicked them and went on my way.
It’s been reported the US DOJ has several antitrust investigations underway.
I believe they’ll wait until next summar to release any findings or start any actions so that they can blunt the strikes by these companies under the umbrella of bias.
Most everyone. Including you. Typical EULA. Who reads this stuf? Just scroll down and click "accept".
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Just today, my daughter sent a Facebook Messenger post showing a bunch of T-shirts she liked. Her follow up post said she only needed $170 for them. (joking)
The next post, which I almost pressed accidentally was from Facebook I guess and it gave me the opportunity to instantly buy them for $170.
“Alexandra from Anaheim” was among the shoppers that visitors to ThredUp were told had recently bought items on the site. But she didn’t exist.
Everbody. It is impossible to exist in modern society today without doing so. Accepting terms of service agreements comes to mind.
Who agrees to something they don’t know what it is?
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