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I think some of this stems from their use in dark patterns, such as opt-opt checkboxes that end up opting you in.

Then copy and paste took over.




I had something like this happen w some documentation I was working on in docbook (~13 years ago - forgive me if this isn’t 100% accurate), iirc: “[*]” meant “empty checkbox”.




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