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I'm not referring to "soft asks". The dark pattern is creating a fake dialog that mimics the real system dialog in order to mislead, and circumvent a feature designed to protect users from spam/abuse.

Telling a user why they're about to get a permissions dialog, and displaying a real system dialog, is obviously not a dark pattern.

They're common as hell, but I can't seem to find a live example of what I'm talking about right now.

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Reddit does this on their IOS app.

Almost every small local news website that wants to send you push notifications has started doing this—a sticky popup that they can show you as many times as they want, providing only a little more information then the actual permissions pop-up would, allowing them to bypass "only request permissions after user interaction" schemes and reducing their (UA-visible) decline rates.

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