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Yep, but that is a dangerous path/metric, besides this specific "artificial" delay, think of the millions, billions, trillions seconds humanity has lost - parti
by jaclaz 5y ago
Yep, but that is a dangerous path/metric, besides this specific "artificial" delay, think of the millions, billions, trillions seconds humanity has lost - particularly the poorest - waiting for stupidly bloated sites to load on a slowish connection (or even worse a metered one) when the same content and message could have been delivered with 1/10th or 1/100th of bandwidth usage ...
If you adopt this kind of metric/moral stance any web programmer workng in the last 20 years is guilty ...
- soheil 5y agoThere are things you can refuse to work on and there are things that you have to put in effort to make better. Improving a bloated site to load faster is not as trivial as refusing to put a dumb timeout to slow things down. I still think the OP is totally overreacting and even calling something as stupid as this a "dark pattern" belittles truly horrific things that are happening in the world including the cyber world.
- Aeolun 5y agoWe’re talking about “dark patterns” here, not crimes against humanity. I think this is unambiguiously evil, but that doesn’t automatically make it as bad as murder.