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		yuhong on Nov 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More I think what Win8.1 does with pushing you to use MS accounts during OOBE is a much worse dark pattern than this.

Excavator on Nov 26, 2015 [–]

"I think hanging someone is worse than just giving them poison."

I don't particularly care about this spyware debate but I can't see how something bad being better than something else bad bears any relevance unless we are talking about choosing between two bad options.

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