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Firefox To Remove UI Dark Pattern From Screenshot Tool After Months of Complaints (zdnet.com)
After months of user complaints, Mozilla will remove a misleading "dark pattern" from its page screenshot utility. From a report: The problematic feature is the "Save" button that appears when Firefox users take a screenshot. The issue is that the Save button doesn't save the screenshot to the PC, as most users would naturally expect, but uploads the image to a Mozilla server. This is both a privacy violation, as some users don't appreciate being tricked into uploading sensitive images saved on remote servers, but also an incovenience as users would still have to download the image locally, but in multiple steps afterward.
Update your "about:config" settings or edit your "user.js" file - problem solved.
// Disable Firefox Screenshots
user_pref("extensions.screenshots.disabled", true);
user_pref("extensions.screenshots.system-disabled", true);
user_pref("extensions.screenshots.upload-disabled", true);
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Dark pattern is the accepted term for deceptive user interfaces and has been for a around a decade. It exists as a bucket term because of the large number of methods used.
Or you could, you know... use terminology in the standard way it has come to be used throughout the industry.
I've never heard the term either and it is losing relevance.
It peaked in Nov 2005, it is about 34% as popular now.
https://trends.google.com/tren...
No, your OS cannot screenshot a full webpage including all parts beyond the vertical and horizontal scrolls.
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The Firefox Screenshot Tool can capture the whole page -- including sections of the page that can't dimensionally fit on screen.
Here's the thing, though. Since they already have the "take screenshot and upload it on a dedicated server" code in place, all they need is to ask the user when taking a screenshot:
"Do you want to save this screenshot locally on your device (default choice) or upload it to the Mozilla servers?"
It looks to me like they don't even need to do that.
I never even knew that this feature existed (it's hidden under a '...' menu that I've never opened in all these years). So I pulled it up, and I see that there are already two separate buttons: A small "Download" button and a large "Save" button. (The latter has a tiny "cloud" icon in it, which I guess is a subtle clue and/or IQ test.)
All they really need to do is change the word "Save" to "Upload to cloud", and also change the color and size of the "Download" button to make it equally prominent to the save button. It could be purely styling changes with no change in the code logic.
You're right, it's an obscure phrase that people only used briefly on obscure websites years ago.
https://www.theverge.com/2013/...
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07...
https://mashable.com/article/f...
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/sc...
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https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...
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https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/15...