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I guess the prevalence of dark patterns in today's websites has blurred the lines here so completely that even the "technically solicited" are grouped in with u

• denton-scratch 4y ago
  "Briberous"? As in, "You can't have this service unless we can add your email address to our newsletter"? There is no dark pattern that will persuade me that typing in my email address isn't going to result in commercial email. If doing that is a condition for receiving service, then I have to decide how much I want the service. If I go ahead and sign up, I certainly can't complain that the resulting newsletter is spam. Online shops often require an email address when I order. They send it an order confirmation/invoice or whatever. Is that manipulation or briberousness? This phrase "technically solicited": I suppose if some company gets my email so they can send me an invoice, and then proceeds to send me newsletters daily, with no means to unsubscribe, well, I solicited the order-confirmation, not the newsletters. That's not technically solicited; it's unsolicited (and it's a shop I won't be using again).
  • lucideer 4y ago
    If that's ok with you, that's cool, but I think many will differ. I live in Europe where we have a few minor rights and such so I guess I just have higher standards for online interactions ¯\_(ツ)_/¯