I think there are two things about the underlying phenomenon that are worth noting and one thing about the article that makes my eyes roll into the back of my head casehttps://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1143887599162908672 …
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The other issue is asymmetric costs around user agreements My skip level at the Fed talked about this a fair amount during the 08 crash, his cute term for it was "obfuscopoly" A company only has to create an agreement once; each of millions of users must pare the fine print
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This is actually a problem. I can see regulation being useful in concept, but per ushe the problem is in execution and I'm pretty skeptical of the government managing to improve on the status quo
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have you seen the governments user agreement its billions of pages long you have to hire professionals at hundreds of dollars per hour to understand it if you violate it they put you in a cage steal your kids or shoot you and there's no opt out
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Excuse me I've regained my composure Anyway the eyeroll comes in with Big Media talking about this shit like they dont track and resell user information with negligible consent "We just noticed you're browsing in incognito mode" bitxh,,,,, Ok thank u all I love u
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A lot of "good" companies use some dark patterns, and there are other reasons you keep using the product. I feel like narrowly-defined legislation that bans specific practices is a good thing
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theyre gonna fuck it up
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Short run yes depending on context Medium run it makes people block out the channel and you're worse off than you were before Can't talk about my own work but (eg) Groupon fucked up very badly in this way
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