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Try canceling your Amazon Prime. Every order now, I have to be careful not to re-activate Prime, with all the dark patterns. I also have to keep switching the
by neilv 3y ago
Try canceling your Amazon Prime. Every order now, I have to be careful not to re-activate Prime, with all the dark patterns.
I also have to keep switching the shipping method on an order page, from the paid option, to the free (non-Prime) option. And there's a long spinner (sometimes ~15 seconds) to punish me when I click the radio button. (In the past, they've also hidden a default trial of Prime in the shipping option radio buttons, so that's another reason to check that.)
(If only Walmart.com, Target.com, Walgreens.com, etc. would close the gap to even current Amazon, we'd have better options and less trashiness. Anecdotally seems like Amazon -- either from the top, or from individuals juicing their metrics -- are taking advantage of Amazon's enviable competence and position, and cashing out excess goodwill.)
- rqtwteye 3y ago"Try canceling your Amazon Prime. Every order now, I have to be careful not to re-activate Prime, with all the dark patterns." I just got myself a month of Prime because of this. And cancelling requires you to go through around 5 screens with buttons "Do you want to cancel?", "Yes, I want to keep Prime" and so on. And the colors of the cancel button are always different. So you have to closely read and understand each button or your cancel attempt will get cancelled.
- neilv 3y agoThe company that made such a huge fuss over the idea of one-click presumably appreciates the effects of gauntlet-of-confusing-clicks. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Licensing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Licensing