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I love that you think that Oath is a privacy settings service and not an enormous media company. These dark patterns are hurting their brand.


You're right.

So many times I had a bad privacy consent experience while seeing their logo under it. Now I automatically associate Oath with that bad experience. I guess that's why I assumed Oath to be some privacy settings service similar to Trustarc.


I refuse to use any Oath sites to the point where I block many of them in my hosts file now. Sadly means I can’t read this article. I think I’ll live.


I feel the same and now avoid techcrunch like the plague. Fortunately Hackaday published a piece on this subject too, if you still have the interest.

https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/maker-media-ceases-operation...


Thanks!




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