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It's a dark pattern, because it's deliberately wasting everybody's time to cater to people who refuse to learn. It should instead say "verification complete in
by mrob 7y ago
It's a dark pattern, because it's deliberately wasting everybody's time to cater to people who refuse to learn. It should instead say "verification complete in n milliseconds" (or n microseconds if the milliseconds number looks too small). There could even be a "details" link with a log of all the verification steps.
- sbov 7y agoThat's not really what dark pattern means. They're about tricking people into doing something they otherwise wouldn't.
- mrob 7y agoIt's tricking people into waiting for nothing.
- parliament32 7y agoThis is getting pedantic but: it's not tricking people into anything. People don't have a choice. In a real dark pattern, you're trying to convince users to do something -- here, the users were going to (get their numbers verified, do the web search, whatever) anyway, it's just the illusion of doing more work. It's shitty but it's not evil.