For example, they might make the Accept All Cookies button prominent, colorful and appealing, while burying the Customize Settings option in small text or a less noticeable location. This design choice can be misleading, effectively nudging users towards accepting all cookies without considering the consequences.
Kind of burying the lede there that this isn't just annoying, it's illegal.
I recently went to a webpage that on landing it opened the cookie modal full page with a big "We Respect Your Privacy!" and all the cookies were listed and opted out. Which was really nice, then you scroll down to reveal the buttons and the big prominent button was "Accept All Cookies" and the other smaller button was the "Save Settings" button. They were all colors that blended so if you were going too fast you just wouldn't see the words against the background.
I was really just impressed by the lengths they went to to steal consent.
The general trend of Not-A-Button Buttons in GUIs can die in a fucking fire.
We have screens capable of rendering 8K in literally billions of colors and the silicon to drive them and yet we can't spare a few pixels for some borders and shading?
However, the various DPAs have been completely useless at actually enforcing its regulation, as if there wasn't actually any will to enforce it due to vested interests.
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Kind of burying the lede there that this isn't just annoying, it's illegal.
I recently went to a webpage that on landing it opened the cookie modal full page with a big "We Respect Your Privacy!" and all the cookies were listed and opted out. Which was really nice, then you scroll down to reveal the buttons and the big prominent button was "Accept All Cookies" and the other smaller button was the "Save Settings" button. They were all colors that blended so if you were going too fast you just wouldn't see the words against the background.
I was really just impressed by the lengths they went to to steal consent.
The general trend of Not-A-Button Buttons in GUIs can die in a fucking fire.
We have screens capable of rendering 8K in literally billions of colors and the silicon to drive them and yet we can't spare a few pixels for some borders and shading?
It's not that they can't, it's that they don't want to specifically to be annoying.
However, the various DPAs have been completely useless at actually enforcing its regulation, as if there wasn't actually any will to enforce it due to vested interests.