Yeah, I'm a bit sad that even offline shopping is showing clear signs of dark patterns, but guess it is just so.

Nothing against someone just doing their job though. Can't always choose where you get your living from.

I did politely decline and didn't want to make a fuss about it - the title is bit exaggerated and from outside perspective it probably wasn't that dramatic.

I know that the cashier is just doing their job and I didn't want to make their day any harder than it probably already was. I smiled, thanked and left right after paying.

Hope I don't sound like a karen, just wanted to share my mundane experience in this community since I really love the discussion that is going on in this thread. I do hope that all of us in this community still remember the human when interacting with people in the real world.

Sadly enough that several stores in this country started doing the same until enough privacy aware people noticed and made a fuss about it.

I can imagine that the tactic used on me works - same as making the hide/close/disagree button small. Dark Patterns in real life.

I can relate, and agree that maybe the cashier found it just as awkward. Tried to be as nice as possible because I know its a tough job!

Thank you and you too, fellow privacy enjoyer!

You'd think so, but they've ruined the comment section with critical takes about the video plot and even comment on the performance as if it were "A Midsummer Night's Dream" theater play.

Does this occur even after a few nights of proper sleep?

If you generally sleep enough and don't have other sleeping problems you could try to change the ringtone. Or if you are like me and turn off the alarm half a sleep and don't remember it, put your alarms further away from your bed.

Yeah I got a laugh from the edit as well, this is a meme community after all.

Loved Kbin, but yeah the slow development made me come back to lemmy as well.

Now I really feel stupid, didn't check Play Store... thanks a bunch!

Rip

I feel so hopeless, so pissed, all these news and how these corporations are destroying open web. I really had hope with new generations being more tech savvy and more online would push for openness of web, instead I've come to realize that new generations are really into apps and not going beyond that, not interested in deeper look into software and tech - as long as the gadget works and no matter any subscription cost or microtransactions or surveillance.

I try to be hopeful, but damn it is hard to stay optimistic. I've been trying little by little to push friends and family in a nice way into using Firefox, alternatives to big corporate software and so on, but I understand it takes too much effort for someone who is not really interested in these things. But I will be advocate of open web forever myself.

Edit: okay unfair to expect anything from new generations, and of course there are more tech savvy people than there probably use to be, but had hoped for a huge change in that demographic.