consent

pattern

• Confirmshaming

  Wording the decline option so that choosing it is an admission of something embarrassing, making refusal feel like a confession rather than a choice.

• Cookie consent banner

  A notice asking permission to store non-essential cookies before the reader has done anything, offering accept, reject, and a route to per-purpose choices.

• Double opt-in

  Asking a new subscriber to confirm from the address they typed, so a list holds only addresses whose owner agreed and a typo never becomes a stranger's mail.

• Forced continuity

  Turning a free trial into a paid subscription automatically, with the card taken up front and no reminder before the first real charge.

• Friend spam

  Asking for access to a contact list under one pretext and using it to send invitations that appear to come from the reader.

• Nagging

  Interrupting a task again and again with the same request, so that agreeing becomes the cheapest way to be left alone.

• Permission priming

  Explaining why access is needed in the product's own dialog first, and only firing the operating system prompt once the reader has said yes to that.

• Preselected opt-in

  Arriving at a choice with the answer that benefits the business already ticked, so consent is collected from everyone who does not notice.

• Privacy zuckering

  Steering people into sharing more about themselves than they meant to, by making the permissive choice the easy one and the private choice several clicks deep.

• Unsubscribe link

  The way out of a mailing list, which the law and the mail clients now both insist is one click, and whose difficulty is the honest measure of a sender.