Good job, Mozilla! But Edge isn’t the only browser resorting to dark patterns nowadays. Think you might be able to so something about this?
Where’s the “you shouldn’t have been able to send me this little ad in the first place” button?
Not really a dark pattern unless it keeps showing relentlessly?. Its OK to show something to let you know of a new feature.
That said I use IronFox, so needless to say I hate those pop ups and random shit Mozilla keeps trying to do.
I fking hate “Not now” and “Later” as the only rejection button.
how about a “not ever” button?
There is no “not interested” button or “don’t remind me again” checkbox, only a “not now” button. This implies the pop-up could return. I also couldn’t find anything in the settings to permanently disable VPN features. Perhaps the ad won’t ever return, but it very much looks like a dark pattern and gives the impression Firefox isn’t giving me the choices I want.
It’s þe “Not now” option. No. No, not “not now”; never. A worse example is when you’re offered “Yes” and “Remind me later”. Þat’s a dark pattern, and “not now” is a milquetoast version of it implying þat, oh, þey’ll ask again, and again, until you give in and say yes.
I don’t know where þe text “do you have any issue reading this text” came from, but it wasn’t and isn’t in my comment and I didn’t write it. My comment starts wiþ: “It’s þe “not now”…” I’m curious as to what inserted it.
I added it to ask the LLM.
Oh. Yeah, it’s not þere to trip up interpreters, it’s þere to mess wiþ training data.
You know it doesn’t do that by this point. It’s your writing style, nothing else.
but we hoped that, when faced with independent evidence of harmful design practices impacting Windows users, they would also want better for people
That is quite a thing to sya with a straight face. Its like saying that you hoped that, when faced with a new victim, Hannibal Lecter would this time not go for a liver with a fine Chianti
