Dark Patterns ( neal.fun )

mkulima , 5 months ago

A big one is when an advert is made to look and feel like organic content. The “Ad” flag (legally required) is in faint small font like someone forced them to have it there.

Only_Slightly_Bent , 5 months ago

The Hall of Shame

e_mc2 , 5 months ago

I really don't understand why companies use these tactics. Makes me instantly hate them and leave their website/cancel purchase processes etc. never to return again unless it's absolutely completely unavoidable. Rather pay a bit more than dealing with scummy/scammy businesses.

OpenStars , 5 months ago

Yeah but you are not the average customer. It is the same logic for spam (& chain) emails: so long as it works on a sufficient (even if small) number of people, it makes it worth their while. And then like every conflict situation ever, most people just put up with it and remain neutral. Hence, they continue to do it - b/c they can (get away with it).

Sheeple , 5 months ago

Discord. The "Gift nitro" button is placed where in a previous version the "upload file" button was

Additionally the window once opened, can't be closed with the ESC key unlike other windows.

Finally you had to decline twice before that was changed to only be once.

Overall a very disgusting move on what was supposed to be a user friendly program