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>I've read this three times now and I'm still not sure I get it... For about ten years now, every time I use Paypal for an eBay payment, I'm interrupted to cho
by e3pi 13y ago
>I've read this three times now and I'm still not sure I get it...
For about ten years now, every time I use Paypal for an eBay payment, I'm interrupted to choose a $10.00 off opt-in for setting up credit, I have to click-thru this every time. By now, I've done this several hundreds of times.
I'm just a fish trying to stay out of their double-trap dark pattern slippery slope trammel net.
- kwijibob 13y agoI've been on google+ since the beginning (2nd half of 2011). For the whole 18-20 months whenever I have gone to google+ on the web it has first had an obstacle "Find your friends" page asking me to spam all my contacts about google+. It still does it even today. There is no opt-out or "stop asking me to do this" checkbox. Even though I am an active plus user with posts and comments, it still treats me like a first timer. I'm trying to get into google+ but there is no way I'm going to spam my friends. That it has been doing this to me hundreds of times for nearly two years is unbelievable.
- e3pi 13y agoAnother one. HN subject titles often link to the New York Times. Not having a subscription and offended with their offensive dark screen blinding pop-up `dark pattern' `hook' --free, or otherwise-- I now only read the respective HN comments. NYT coverage is usually good, I miss it, but now BBC, Reuters, Guardian, rt, Der Spiegel, HN, are my primary news feeds.