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Wired: consent management platform.

Author
1Br0wn
Date
22 Aug 2020
Type
Nagging
Publisher
Twitter

“Wired’s consent management platform shows unselected settings as having ‘Objection applied’. A box to opt-in is labelled ‘Remove objection’. Using the word ‘objection’ implies shaming the user for not having opted in.”

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