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The problem is that there are still huge amounts of services with awful dark patterns out there. There’s an instagram gym clothing brand called Fabletics which
by maccard 2y ago
The problem is that there are still huge amounts of services with awful dark patterns out there. There’s an instagram gym clothing brand called Fabletics which is £55/month for their vip tier. They auto subscribe you with a purchase (and when I say buried in the fine print, I really do mean _buried_ in the fine print). To cancel, you have to do it between the 1st and the 4th of the month, and it’s a multi page form where every page is a confirmation that is designed to look like you have unsubscribed . When services are still doing this there needs to be some rules.
- Kwpolska 2y agoThis is not a dark pattern, this is illegal. Even the US has introduced click-to-cancel recently.
- fastball 2y agoI am 100% against dark patterns and yes, my comment assumed that it is very easy for the individual to cancel the service themselves. I also think Kagi is great for doing this. Punishing companies because they don't do this is another thing entirely, which is what the comment I was replying to suggested.