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I fuckin' signed in to YouTube with my existing account damn it

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

There are some people who will put this data, the ones who usually agree to all cookies. So even if you let users skip, with some dark patterns you can manage to influence a lot of people. Example: I set up local windows accounts for a couple of family members, yet somehow a week later or so they had online Microsoft accounts connected.