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Open Tumblr.

Choose not to accept / options.

You'll be faced with 330+ individual agree/disagree toggles. THERE IS NO REJECT ALL BUTTON. If you're not technically inclined, you have to manually click them all.

You also have to choose block/remove consent (or whatever it is called) for similar crap hidden under the "Legitimate uses" category moniker. Same shit.

For this, and similar idiotic dark patters, there's a Firefox addon called "Unchecker".

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unchecker/

That, is, of course, until they start using buttons (some already do), double negatives in the wording or some such crap.




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