Dark Patterns
Dark Patterns
Curious website that explains how pages want to deceive you with examples (save to use and not taken very seriously)
Discord. The "Gift nitro" button is placed where in a previous version the "upload file" button was
Additionally the window once opened, can't be closed with the ESC key unlike other windows.
Finally you had to decline twice before that was changed to only be once.
Overall a very disgusting move on what was supposed to be a user friendly program
It had enough eye candies for the casual market, but that was it. I still mourn for the death of IRC outside the tech-dev circles.
I tried discord once years ago. Didn't care for it as a product, nor did I care for the privacy policy.
A big one is when an advert is made to look and feel like organic content. The “Ad” flag (legally required) is in faint small font like someone forced them to have it there.
That first one... It makes me laugh. It has never affected me when companies use derogatory or belittling language. I decline them with a smile on my face but I can see how it might work on others.
I really don't understand why companies use these tactics. Makes me instantly hate them and leave their website/cancel purchase processes etc. never to return again unless it's absolutely completely unavoidable. Rather pay a bit more than dealing with scummy/scammy businesses.
Yeah but you are not the average customer. It is the same logic for spam (& chain) emails: so long as it works on a sufficient (even if small) number of people, it makes it worth their while. And then like every conflict situation ever, most people just put up with it and remain neutral. Hence, they continue to do it - b/c they can (get away with it).