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I'm wondering if there would be any value in an Anti-Dark Pattern plugin? Basically a browser plugin that un-does all of the dark patterns companies use to try
by joeblau 10y ago
I'm wondering if there would be any value in an Anti-Dark Pattern plugin? Basically a browser plugin that un-does all of the dark patterns companies use to try and trick people and give you a straight result.
- grenoire 10y agoThe amount of work put into it may not necessarily be worth it the gains, given how many different websites there are with varying implementations of these patterns.
- noxToken 10y agoMake it open source, and the community will probably maintain it. I'm sure that if a list of sites were given, fixes for the dark patterns would be submitted regularly.
- acdha 10y ago> Make it open source, and the community will probably maintain it … or fill the issue tracker with troubleshooting requests, demands that someone else code something they think needs to exist, long rants about whether something should or should not be included, etc. Open source maintenance is far from free.
- kardos 10y agoYou don't have to be a BDFL, you can delegate maintenance work to community recruits as it scales up.
- acdha 10y agoIt's nice when that works out but it's unfortunately not uncommon to have projects which don't attract volunteers, attract volunteers who have time/interest in fixing one particular thing but not maintaining it smoothly over time, or which simply cycle through people as the cycle of enthusiasm->overload->burnout->resignation repeats. As a community we tend to neglect this side of things since it's neither a fun technical problem nor something a one-time effort can fix, but it deprives the open-source world of too many good developers.
- goda90 10y agoOr instead, just have a crowdsourced list of dark pattern sites, so that when you first load them, you know right away that it has some sort of dark pattern and can stay aware.