Yeah this is very common, I don’t know why other people on here are gaslighting like it doesn’t happen. It’s this way for major sites like YouTube/Twitter/Twitch/etc too.
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Pigeon@programming.dev 1 year agoI encounter something similar to this often.
There’s a lot of cookie banners where “Accept All Cookies” is a single button but in order to reject cookies you have to press a “Manage Cookies” link which will have something similar to a “Reject All Cookies” button in it.
It’s very annoying.
mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Zacryon@feddit.de 1 year ago
There is also a name for these kind of psychological tricks and pressure. It’s called nudging.
I found a small report on this by the EU Commission’s science and knowledge service. publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/…/JRC127856_01.pdf
There are surely even better resources.