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Warning, throws a popup in your face to make you subscribe to their mail spam and plays a sound to make you notice the fake chat having a message in the corner.
by aw3c2 9y ago
Warning, throws a popup in your face to make you subscribe to their mail spam and plays a sound to make you notice the fake chat having a message in the corner.
Overall this is just a low effort linkbait article to build SEO.
- manigandham 9y agoThis is definitely a clickbait SEO article but the "chat" isnt fake, it's a service provided by intercom.io (and several other companies) to have live chat on your site for visitors and customers to interact with quickly. Thousands of sites have this now and it's a good feature to have.
- ralfn 9y agoYes. I generally use it to tell whoever is on the other side just how annoying and misleading the chat ping sound was and the blinking of the tab title. Intentionally trying to sound and look like a Facebook, Skype or Gmail notification. Thats definitely not a dark pattern. The sort of company that would use this isn't scammy at all.
- falcolas 9y agoThe ding for the chat is fake, though. There's nobody on the other end waiting for you to return their engagement.
- aw3c2 9y agoI had opened it and faked interest, waited for 30 minutes, no reply. There is nothing wrong with providing a chat function but in this case it made a notification sound and displayed a "1", implying a message for me. That is just scummy.
- iagreeentirely 9y agoIs this what HN is now? A place for press releases masquerading as low-value analysis?