Dark pattern? The author is advertising a mailing list, not stealing your social security number. The author is providing all of this content free of charge and

Dark pattern? The author is advertising a mailing list, not stealing your social security number. The author is providing all of this content free of charge and giving you an opportunity to get more free content if you subscribe. There is nothing dark about this it’s extremely benign, and quite frankly how things used to work for most of the web 20 years ago. So very much Web 1.0. You can’t treat every individual blogger like they are Facebook. If my neighbor knocks on my door asking for sugar that’s not a problem, even if it would be a problem if sugar corporations hired 2 million people to knock up everyone in my neighborhood every day for a year asking for a cup of sugar to increase demand.