Comment by fireflash38
11 hours ago
If it isn't an informed decision, it isn't really a decision at all. And the huge majority of people the huge majority of the time do not want to make an informed decision: they want what they came to the site for, news, games, family photos, etc.
You go to Facebook to see your cute nephew make spit bubbles. Do you care that they access your camera and canvas? What is a canvas? And sure access my camera, I want to upload photos!
It's fundamentally broken. They've studied the dark patterns, not to avoid them but to implement them best.
Absolutely. I spoke to an ex-Meta guy and his only answer to stuff like this was "actually its good for privacy because they don't want third parties to access your data since its valuable"