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> I manually hide them every thirty days The inability of tech companies to accept that no means no, and not "bother me later" is a dark pattern that I've noti
by victorstanciu 2y ago
> I manually hide them every thirty days
The inability of tech companies to accept that no means no, and not "bother me later" is a dark pattern that I've noticed more and more lately.
- Freak_NL 2y agoIt seems to have gotten imbedded as 'just the way you ask users things' in UI developer's mindsets: Do you want to enable push notifications? [Yes please] [Later] How about [No]? Just add a note that I can always enable this later if I want to, but don't jerk around with this nudging making me feel I'm just postponing this choice.
- numpad0 2y agoIt's called dark patterns as GP mentioned. They're financially motivated to improve [Yes] clicks, so they just remove [No]. It's completely Web-legal and Web-ethical. IMO, something should have been done when A/B tests became normal(mid to late 2000s). That ship had long long sailed, but I believe that alone require independent ethics board if it is happening outside the Web. It should not be something easily handled with a blanket waiver in shrinkwrap EULA.
- brokenmachine 2y agoAs Louis Rossmann would say, Rapist mentality.