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by neffo 924 days ago
(o ) "Do you want to receive marketing emails from our partners?"

This is absolutely a dark pattern.

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Even worse when there's not even a grammatical structure, like

"opt-out options"

"annoying marketing emails (o )"

am i... enabling the thing? opting out of the thing?

It's also a stupid pattern. Privacy and spam laws usually require informed consent. They might as well just not ask for anything, because any consent they get this way doesn't count for shit.