[not-elite]

You will be happy to learn that under Chair Khan, the FTC is going to prioritize enforcement actions against this specific practice. Only 1 Commissioner issued a dissenting statement. [1]

Comcast has probably already discontinued the practice, as it's been 2 weeks since the policy statement was issued.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/10/ftc-r...

[encryptluks2]

According to the press release, there are a lot of grey room and no these companies have not magically discontinued their "dark" patterns because of some press release. The only thing that will actually get companies like this to do anything is enforcement, and the government historically lets companies like this off extremely easy and they decide the small penalties are worth the extra they make by doing the thing they are not supposed to be doing.