Reddit desktop too is no stranger to dark patterns. When they rolled out their "new" interface they provided a link to "old reddit.com", but clicking this took

Reddit desktop too is no stranger to dark patterns. When they rolled out their "new" interface they provided a link to "old reddit.com", but clicking this took you back to the reddit home page, not the page you are on. They fixed this for subreddits but it still happens for posts, so if you are at a post and click "old reddit" you don't get the same post in old reddit, you just lose the post. (which is available, just replacing www.reddit with old.reddit gets you there, and it did at one point work that way). No doubt they have some metric to reduce people viewing in old.reddit.com but it's very hostile the way they have done this. Another change toward the dark: On their sign up page they used to advertise that you could sign up without an email address so you could remain anonymous. I can no longer work out how to sign up without providing an email address. (Although they don't validate, I would rather not provide false information).