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I thought that until I got most of the way through the article. It is a long winded explanation that eventually gets to its point that the skip button can appea
by theginger 4y ago
I thought that until I got most of the way through the article.
It is a long winded explanation that eventually gets to its point that the skip button can appear in various formats making it a tiny bit slower to recognise and use.
Without a reasonable explanation to why it needs to change it seems like dark pattern is fair.
- svachalek 4y agoDark patterns are basically brain hacking, hacking someone else's brain to benefit yourself. This looks like some kind of massive A/B test to eke out a small percentage margin on advertising. I'd give it a few dark points for that but imo advertising itself is the dark lord of dark patterns: not only is it a brain hack, not only has it hacked all the way into social acceptability, but it is the darkness from which so many other dark patterns spawn and spring forth to bring revenue to their master.