The commodification of consent

Woods, Daniel; Böhme, Rainer

doi:10.1016/j.cose.2022.102605

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“…Different services have emerged that help website providers manage the communication of consent. Such services are often referred to as "consent management platforms" (CMP) [17,26,47]. In a nutshell, CMPs are standard "off-the-shelf" software that aim to automate the consent management process for websites.…”

Section: Terminology and Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Large-Scale Study of Cookie Banner Interaction Tools and their Impact on Users' Privacy

Demir,

Urban,

Pohlmann

et al. 2024

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Cookie notices (or cookie banners) are a popular mechanism for websites to provide (European) Internet users a tool to choose which cookies the site may set. Banner implementations range from merely providing information that a site uses cookies over offering the choice to accepting or denying all cookies to allowing fine-grained control of cookie usage. Users frequently get annoyed by the banner's pervasiveness as they interrupt ''natural'' browsing on the Web. As a remedy, different browser extensions have been developed to automate the interaction with cookie banners. In this work, we perform a large-scale measurement study comparing the effectiveness of extensions for ''cookie banner interaction.'' We configured the extensions to express different privacy choices (e.g., accepting all cookies, accepting functional cookies, or rejecting all cookies) to understand their capabilities to execute a user's preferences. The results show statistically significant differences in which cookies are set, how many of them are set, and which types are set---even for extensions that aim to implement the same cookie choice. Extensions for ''cookie banner interaction'' can effectively reduce the number of set cookies compared to no interaction with the banners. However, all extensions increase the tracking requests significantly except when rejecting all cookies.

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Section: Terminology and Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Large-Scale Study of Cookie Banner Interaction Tools and their Impact on Users' Privacy

Demir,

Urban,

Pohlmann

et al. 2024

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“…Doing so would be comparable to researchers notifying system owners about security vulnerabilities [6], [43], [60], [67]. One major difference is that system owners (typically) want to fix security vulnerabilities and would therefore be grateful for the opportunity to remediate the issue, in contrast websites may have intentionally introduced dark patterns to nudge users towards opt-in consent [15], [74]. Consequently, we did not want to risk the website threatening us with legal action, which occurs even with security notifications that (in theory) help the website.…”

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“…Websites ask for a user's permission before processing personal data, which allows privacy conscious users to deny consent and thereby protect their privacy. Collecting consent generates value for the website and its advertising partners [74]. The benefits of collecting consent from users include evidence of legal compliance [62], [63], satisfying advertising partners [56], and even improving sales [25].…”

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DarkDialogs: Automated detection of 10 dark patterns on cookie dialogs

Kirkman,

Vaniea,

Woods

2023

2023 IEEE 8th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P)

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In theory, consent dialogs allow users to express privacy preferences regarding how a website and its partners process the user's personal data. In reality, dialogs often employ subtle design techniques known as dark patterns that nudge users towards accepting more data processing than the user would otherwise accept. Dark patterns undermine user autonomy and can violate privacy laws. We build a system, DarkDialogs, that automatically extracts arbitrary consent dialogs from a website and detects the presence of 10 dark patterns. Evaluating DarkDialogs against a hand-labelled dataset reveals it extracts dialogs with an accuracy of 98.7% and correctly classifies 99% of the studied dark patterns. We deployed DarkDialogs on a sample of 10,992 websites, where it successfully collected 2,417 consent dialogs and found 3,744 different dark patterns automatically present on the consent dialogs. We then test whether dark pattern prevalence is associated with each of: the website's popularity, the presence of a third-party consent management provider, and the number of ID-like cookies.

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“…Extrinsic commodification is a commodification process that reaches all educational institutions, government information, media and culture that are expected to be a driver for audiences so that not everyone can access media products (Woods & Böhme, 2022). Thus, understanding of cybernetic commodification from Panagia (2021) makes the media as a contest for achievements that are considered public.…”

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role of political buzzers in the formation of public opinion supports Anies Baswedan on social media Twitter

Harry Fajar Maulana,

Wa ode Mutmainah,

Nur Tang

2022

J. Commun.

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This article will elaborate on the role of buzzers in the establishment of public opinion on social media through twitter platform by taking the keyword Support Anies Baswedan in the 2024 election. The purpose of this study is to find out the actors involved in the formation of opinions in support of Anies Baswedan in the 2024 election and the extent of the network that has been created by buzzers. This paper uses a qualitative approach using Social Network Analytic (SNA) from Netlytic.org in the analysis of buzzer actors in the formation of public opinion Supporting Anies Baswedan in Persidn 2024. The results showed that from 1156 Tweet data occurred from November 27, 2021 to December 05, 2021, a total of 1159 Massages and Unique Poster 849 were found to have 150 accounts created in 2021 on the issue of Supporting Anies Baswedan, 10 accounts that commented and shared tweets for up to 05 Decesember.

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The commodification of consent

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

A Large-Scale Study of Cookie Banner Interaction Tools and their Impact on Users' Privacy

A Large-Scale Study of Cookie Banner Interaction Tools and their Impact on Users' Privacy

DarkDialogs: Automated detection of 10 dark patterns on cookie dialogs

role of political buzzers in the formation of public opinion supports Anies Baswedan on social media Twitter

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