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Facebook makes it tricky to decline an invitation

Author
Zach Collier
Date
16 Jan 2022

“The user needs to click a small button labelled ”…” then select “Decline”, then ignore the main button (despite it being the thing they requested) and select the less obvious secondary button labelled “Confirm”.”

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