[tptacek]

Yes, lots of people reported it to be a "dark pattern", but I'm very much with Nikita Borisov on this one:

https://twitter.com/nikitab/status/1044314072706158593

Meanwhile: whatever color you want to shade in the "pattern" with, this subthread starts with a claim that is falsifiable, and also actually false. So please don't pretend like I'm arguing from abstractions here.

[reitanqild]

Thanks, I don't use Chrome that much (or at all if I an avoid it) so that's interesting.

Still there are the claims of buybackoff that I linked above that options has been set without their consent.

So it seems to me there's either a muddy pattern or they even are tweaking things on behalf of users whitout even asking?

Edit: also this from the post we are discussing:

> However, by clicking on “settings” I was unable to click “undo” - the user interface happily assumed that yes, in fact I wanted to first upload my data. And suddenly, instead of “Last time synced in 2017” I saw the following: “Last time synced on Today”.