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Signal and Threema want nothing to do with WhatsApp (www.androidpolice.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The cookie consent also has a huge fail whale of unintended consequences - training users to click [accept], or really [anything], to make the annoyance just go away.

And nefarious actors have their run of the place now. They can slip onerous terms into EULAs and know they will largely be accepted.

As well as random [Continue] boxes to install malware or whatever they want since users are so well trained to click just to get it the fuck off their screen.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That wont hold in court tho