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In an observational study using an eye-tracker, subjects were presented with a modeless cookie choice dialog preceding a short survey on Internet privacy. Subjects were later asked whether they believed ad trackers were present on the site or not. 41% believed there either were or were not ad trackers on the site based on not clicking “allow” or “block”, respectively. These results suggest that a pragmatic implicature is in play - information is suggested though not explicitly stated.
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Harper, L., Kohl, D., Summers, K. (2013). The Problem of Implicature in “Do Not Track” Choice Design. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 374. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39476-8_147
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