3 ms·
I was about to say something similar. About half of the "dark patterns" on that site strike me as completely ordinary persuasion techniques. They're "dark" only
by jaspax 7y ago
I was about to say something similar. About half of the "dark patterns" on that site strike me as completely ordinary persuasion techniques. They're "dark" only if you think that the art of sales and marketing itself is "dark". (The other half are legitimately skeevy.)
- TeMPOraL 7y agoWell, it is. Ask yourself, would if your friend tried to pull these off with you, would you be friends much longer? Reality may be shades of gray, but the simple gold standard of transactions is still "exchanging currency for value at a price point optimal to both parties". Under this standard, all these techniques are dark.
- dillonmckay 7y agoThe price point of optimization is determined by the available, or lack of, information at the time of the decision - what both parties believe to be true (for whatever reason).
- TeMPOraL 7y agoYup. And providing less than maximally accurate information to the buying party is what makes a potentially fair offer a dark pattern.