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Comment by jamesbritt | Hacker News Reader

    On IE, it doesn't even offer a 'No' but rather an 'Ask Me Later',

I freakin' hate shit like that. It's from the same play book as, "Are you still cheating on your wife?"

It's not just kinda sneaky, it's bullshit sneaky; it's not a yes/no option, it's yes/yes for two related, but different, things.

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Facebook did the same with friend requests. Actually denying a friend request is a 15-minute-long affair that, I would bet, almost nobody actually does.

It works, though. "Not Now", most likely, has replaced "Deny Request" for good.

I pray for the day when technology has advanced to where we can be offered three choices.

Youtube has the same policy now. It really annoys me. "You can no longer use your youtube username password".

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