Microsoft Edge swapped Cancel and Confirm on privacy dialog (opens in new tab)

Yup. Somebody at MSFT trying to min/max their way towards their next promotion.

Soon, privacy popups will have randomized text, placement, icons, and style, changing each time you take the choice they dislike.

And nothing hostile here, just AB testing and data. Kinda reminds me social networks algos for some reason.

From the guidelines: "Question dialogs (using buttons) ask users a single question or to confirm a command, and use simple responses in horizontally arranged command buttons." The key part being use simple responses. They fail on two parts, it could have just said yes/no like 99% of dialog boxes out there. Secondly it changed the order from standard. On the next guideline: "Whenever possible, assign unique access keys to all interactive controls or their labels.". These buttons do not assign access keys. Agaion y/n are the common ones here. They've literally went out of their way to create a more confusing dialog when the ismple confirm dialog would have been perfect.

"Yeah no, every app and every website does this stuff differently". Do you want to bet on that? I will wager that the top 20 open source applications, use standard yes/no dialogs 5x times more often than a customized version.

Turning on the annoyances filter for cookies on ublock origins was one of the best quality of life improvements I made recently, I wish it was more widely known.