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Man I get that this is supposed to be funny but it just makes me sad, because it's so true. The constant fucking assault on our minds as we browse the web is en
by rosmax_1337 4y ago
Man I get that this is supposed to be funny but it just makes me sad, because it's so true. The constant fucking assault on our minds as we browse the web is enough to drive you insane nowadays. It should be illegal to employ dark patterns like these. Frankly it's malware presented plainly at a url disguised as commerical intrest. Don't reply to me about how "you can't legislate something like that", I know it's hard. But we have to do it somehow.
- shadowgovt 4y agoI don't think it needs to be illegal, because the "market pressure" is still there: - users don't like it and go away without actually reading the content - Google detects click-away from these sites as a bad search result and begins downranking them (ask yourself: "Am I getting to most of these sites via search results, or via mindless social media browsing?" Social media isn't optimized for search-efficiency signal like a search engine is). So there's a negative-feedback loop on the thing, but the transition from accessing the web via search to social has disrupted the old feedback loop enough that some people think it's short-term profitable to be like this. It will be until either Facebook catches up to the game and starts down-sampling bad actors too or users get tired of it and stop clicking through off of social to those sites, but I expect that negative feedback loop is kicking in.
- dionidium 4y ago> I don't think it needs to be illegal, because the "market pressure" is still there Also, I see people complaining about all kinds of stuff that doesn't bother me at all. Just because something annoys you personally, that doesn't necessarily mean it should be forbidden.