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Of course they don't give the two options equal treatment. Why should they? All that means is that they don't want you to skip the step. They do provide an opti
by wyday 19y ago
Of course they don't give the two options equal treatment. Why should they? All that means is that they don't want you to skip the step. They do provide an option to skip, however.
Maybe you missed it because you wrote the story with a sensationalist conclusion in mind. At least you got to say 'fuck', right?
- jzawodn 19y agoWhy should they? Respect for their potential users. Implying that I missed because of how I'd written my take on it seems a little odd. You do realize that I wrote it after the fact, right? Of course you do. But it's more fun to pretend that I don't "get it." Had I wanted to be sensationalist, I could have done so.
- steve 19y agoThe point is that you must look at the actual numbers - cost of scaring some people away vs. how many new users this brings in, to actually "get it." I've seen this exact technique work extremely well many times before. Building a successful site is absolutely not about giving users everything they want, how they want it. That line of thinking can be very damaging to your site.
- Tichy 19y agoMaybe you are right, but if everybody would be thinking like that, there would be no Linux, only Microsoft. Some people crave a pure solution. For me, a web site that employs the trick above loses my trust, and I will never really feel comfortable in using it anymore.
- Tichy 19y agoI think they do want to trick their users into giving up their email passwords, as do the other pages that employ that method.