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Requiring someone to log in to use your site or service is not a dark pattern though. There's nothing nefarious going on there. As another poster said somewhere
by stanmancan 10y ago
Requiring someone to log in to use your site or service is not a dark pattern though. There's nothing nefarious going on there. As another poster said somewhere in this chain, if upon signing up you have to give your life away via the TOS, or there's pre-checked boxes signing you up for mailing lists, those are dark patterns. Simply requiring a user sign up is not.
- EdHominem 10y agoThat's not what the users say. Sure, it could be darker. But when you see a bit of a crummy pattern you usually walk away instead of checking out just how bad it could get.
- stanmancan 10y agoThen the 'users' are incorrectly using the term dark pattern; most likely because they don't really know what one is. "A Dark Pattern is a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things." Simply making a user sign up to use your service is hardly a 'carefully crafted trick'.
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