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Facebook got a lot of criticism for repeatedly doing new option dialogs on sharing settings. There's really no way to win here since it will be interpreted in the worst possible light.


There's no way to win if you define winning as re-enabling tracking for users who have already explicitly said they don't want it, while avoiding any negative public perception, you mean.

Stop doing shady shit. "I'll keep asking, in increasingly devious ways, until you say yes, and then even if it was an accident I'll remember it forever" is shady shit.


Wasn't the criticism a result of them not having a "master disable" option and therefore the extra options were merely increased work for the user?


There is a way to win: have new options default to off, requiring active opt-in.




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