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Speaking of 'sign up to our newsletter', one of the latest dark patterns I've found that astounded me was adding a checkbox to the login form [0], where you'd n
by enlyth 4y ago
Speaking of 'sign up to our newsletter', one of the latest dark patterns I've found that astounded me was adding a checkbox to the login form [0], where you'd normally expect the 'remember me' checkbox to be. You almost click it out of muscle memory if you don't read what it says.
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- cardamomo 4y agoYes! I just noticed this for the first time yesterday and thought, "I hope this isn't another terrible trend in dark patterns."
- aroccoli 4y agoYeah, I booked a flight on WizzAir two days ago, and this felt like a low blow even from WizzAir.
- _puk 4y agoPredicting the flight will be cancelled in 3.. 2.. 1.. But then the newsletter will haunt you for far far longer.. Not a burnt WizzAir customer at all! /s
- enlyth 4y agoHappened to my dad on Sunday, and the only replacement flight they would offer is for this Friday, what a complete joke air travel is in 2022.
- nebusoft 4y agoI mean you're complaining about an ultra-low cost airline. why would you expect it to have a good customer experience?
- enlyth 4y agoYes I am. They also overbooked seven people on that flight, delayed it for hours, and then completely cancelled. There were people in wheelchairs left stranded at the airport after waiting there all day. This is just plain incompetence.
- bombcar 4y ago"Remember me in your newsletter list" is the next one. Send me money!
- Akronymus 4y agoThats one of the things I REALLY dislike about GoG lately. It tries really hard to bait you into signing up for the newsletter when buying stuff.
- eloisius 4y agoEmail marketing in general blows my mind. Marketers typically have absolutely no respect for consent, and the costs are completely borne by the recipient. The whole industry depends on dark patterns, shady list sharing, and scraping your email to add it to their lists despite you having no relationship with them. I know it's not simple, and it's just my frustration speaking, but I don't understand how my mail host can't ban all Mailchimp et al IPs for me, or implement some standard such that it costs them a penny to send me an email.
- b112 4y agoI'm not a big fan of ipv6, but fan or not, I bet if all spammy mailchimp type provider IP ranges were confiscated and freed, we'd be in ipv4 land for another 20 years. And as a second thought, the way China amd Russia are going, maybe we should just reclaim all their ipv4 addresses, and just give each country 1 IP, they can proxy through it on their end.
- quickthrower2 4y agoThen say goodbye to the internet and hello to a mesh of country-specific networks. Finally, true decentralisation!
- b112 4y ago? That's my point, as this is China already, and Russia is not far behind.
- jamiek88 4y agoWe already have that. It’s just we are in denial as a society about it. Globalization is over. The post Berlin wall fall consensus undermined and ruined. The last to realize, loses.
- account42 4y agoThe quickest way to achieve defeat is to convince yourself that you have already lost.
- SoftTalker 4y agoI never check "remember me" so maybe that's good for me?
- dwighttk 4y agoHeh. I’ve stopped clicking remember me boxes because they never work.
- CodesInChaos 4y agoatlassian does this as well: https://i.postimg.cc/zfwbG5Ft/atlassian-login.png https://i.postimg.cc/zfwbG5Ft/atlassian-login.png
- geysersam 4y agoI knew Atlassian hates their users. But that much??