Thread · 3 tweets · 22 Mar 2021

Much agreed! Even beyond terminology, we need to be clearer on expectations. The framework Google is using there is that Chrome is "first-party" (Justin says as much in the thread). But it's not: it's the user's agent. Expectations are very different.

Same with the "this is valid consent" reaction. I believe Justin is sincere when he says that, but this 1) commits the user to an action they want then 2) shows some legalese with zero decoration. It's pretty clear that it's a dark pattern, but we lack standards.

The frustrating part (for me) is that the same Chrome engineers will easily identify the same tactic as a dark pattern if it were used for instance to gain access to a device feature like location. I would like to figure out what standard I could write to get past such bias.