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Those are dark patterns on the part of the webmasters of those sites though.

They want to make it as hard for you to protect your privacy as possible. It’s the same reason they bug you install an app instead of using the web. In an app you have even less control.

Notice the number of sites that have an enable all but no disable all button?

Thing is if they’re using dark patterns at this stage how can you trust the content of the page you’re trying to view?




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