It's what's called a "dark pattern": purposefully designing the user interface to make it hard for users to do what they want to do, and easy to do the thing yo

It's what's called a "dark pattern": purposefully designing the user interface to make it hard for users to do what they want to do, and easy to do the thing you want them to do. It's cases like these that make me think there should be an ethics code for software developers.