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Those sites can be worthwhile and there's nothing necessarily scammy about the UI/UX IMHO. The scammy part is where they push you into a nearly impossible to c

Those sites can be worthwhile and there's nothing necessarily scammy about the UI/UX IMHO. The scammy part is where they push you into a nearly impossible to cancel subscription with promotional pricing as a way of "saving" vs an expensive one-time payment for one report. The loading bar UI/UX correctly gives the impression that the report will be thorough. In my experience, they are quite good. So that's just fine.

TeMPOraL 6y ago
> The loading bar UI/UX correctly gives the impression that the report will be thorough. In my experience, they are quite good. So that's just fine. The loading bar is lying, plain and simple. "Giving the impression" of something that very much isn't true is just a polite way of saying "screwing with your user's perception of reality". Developers often complain that users cannot at all understand computers - these kinds of practices are part of the reason that is the case. It's not that far conceptually from the tech support scammers that show you errors in your system's Event Log to "give the impression" that you're insecure, and then offer to sell you bogus security products at inflated markup. Same kind of ethics underneath.