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[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If they are just blatantly retoggling the field, that’s not a dark pattern. But if they are toggling based on a lower toggles “nevermind I didn’t mean the above toggle” or similar, then yeah.

That said, I don’t even know what to call the former.

Edit: The downvotes are a weird reaction to me pointing out this potentially isn’t as benign as dark pattern bullshit.