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I don't bother clicking TechCrunch because it redirects to https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_... uuid> and one of the privacy plugins on my Firefox stops me there.

It's a status page, doesn't seem to be a dark pattern intended to keep you engaged and garner clicks, more likely just badly written.

If anything they'd probably want you not visiting it more.

Incompetence, not malice. Who would dark pattern their status page to keep you on it longer—def an accident.

Why are there two comments back to back missing the fact they're obviously referring to this part of the comment:

> News sites injecting their homepage in history on an article sometimes make me wonder if it's worth it.

They even bring up a news site as an example.

I'm not going to assert actual malice, but I think that at Google's scale we can go further than incompetence to bare negligence.

How about canary?