Things were pretty cool until 1994. Then Canter and Siegel unleashed one of the first commercial dark patterns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_an

Things were pretty cool until 1994. Then Canter and Siegel unleashed one of the first commercial dark patterns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Siegel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie... It's been a race to the bottom ever since. Dave Egger's fine and breezy novel "The Circle" illustrates the ethical issues quite nicely.