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Where you go to fix one thing and discover forty toggles you didn't know existed.
means The menu where software lets you adjust how it behaves, looks, and invades your privacy.
from From set, the Old English settan, to place or fix in position; the noun sense of an arrangement of options bloomed alongside machines complex enough to need them.
Buried defaultsMost users never change a single one.
Dark patternPrivacy options hidden deepest, on purpose.
Gear iconUniversal symbol nobody formally agreed on.