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   Peter Bloem (pbloem@sigmoid.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 00:19:46 JST Peter Bloem

   Moving away from Firefox shows how much the rot has already set in. After dismissing the "set as default browser" dialog, and explicitly clicking "don't ask again", next time it shows me a different pop-up, that is much easier to accidentally click.

   All the dark patterns are there: high contrast easily-clickable default option. "No now" instead of "No" as low contrast alternative answer. Cute little cartoon.

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     Peter Bloem (pbloem@sigmoid.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 00:20:29 JST Peter Bloem

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     • Aral Balkan

     Is the cute cartoon a dark pattern? I like cute things (and this fox is well-drawn to be fair).

     But I think it's a deliberate attempt to infantilize the user and to put a harmless face on something insidious.

     @aral noted this more than ten years ago. Make big brother a cartoon dinosaur instead of a mustachioed man and suddenly we will swallow anything.

     https://ar.al/notes/spyware-2.0/

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 08:05:19 JST Miakoda

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     @pbloem
     Oh FireFox... How far you've fallen.