YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream

That's not even what pisses me off the most about the whole situation. I'm upset that my friends and family don't care.

should not be tolerated.

Neither should posting YT videos that should've been articles

A paragraph's worth of information stretched into ten minutes? I've got way better things to do with my time

Edit - twenty four minutes, fuckin hell

Exploitative patterns like those idiotic youtube thumbnails the creators are using to draw extra attention to emotions not actually present in the video?

Or making half hour videos for all of 14 sentences of actual content, to stretch the ad-income as much as they can.

Yeah, that. Wish I could give a video -1 view instead of +1 after clicking onto it. Fuck youtubers such as this one, they're part of the problem and don't get to have a say in what we should or should not try to care about.

Windows 11 is rife with it

Freaking Ironic using a VPN as a sponsorship for this video... VPN landscape is literary riddled with Dark Patterns. Surfshark are also guilty of applying these.

I had one subscription where cancellation was not only buried in a bunker somewhere in the deepest pits of their website, but once you found the magical incantation to get through it the next step was to send them an email requesting a cancellation.

Skipping a month of Humble Choice is an exercise in gotchas. Sometimes the blue button, sometimes not, about 5 confirmation screens to skip through.

I don't know why I'm still subbed in all honestly.

We don't need a shitty youtuber to tell us what we've known for years?

Free money has dried up, so competition is drying up a bit too. And without free money, the big guys are feeling some squeeze and now want to extract the rent they always planned to eventually extract.

Can we name, shame and review bomb companies that do this?

It’s happening everywhere, totally unchecked.

Yes. This is pretty fucking apparent but again, cant do shit about it because corps have paid off our politicians and we can do fuck all about it because we have no way to properly revolt lest we all risk bankruptcy and lose everything.

Has anyone here noticed how it's almost impossible to watch a TikTok on mobile if you don't have an account or the app? My friend sends me links and I click it but the website opens playing it muted and it only plays the TikTok one time, no repeating. Then it prompts me to install the app. If I say I don't want to the unmute button disappears and I'm unable to play the TikTok again with sound. The only way to do it is to refresh which just prompts me to download the app again after being played the TikTok one time with no sound. Aggravating as all hell.

Speaking of dark patterns, anyone use TurboTax lately?

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You should know: if you haven’t noticed dark patterns becoming more prominent, it’s time to get your eyes checked.

if you didn't steal it, you dont own it. fuck these companies.

until more people take that attitude; problem only gets worse.

Jio Telecom here provides WiFi in my area which we can use to place call through our phones without data pack, but man the permissions that app asks are illogical.

Corporations were allowed to incorporate in the public's best interest. If they are no longer operating as such they should be dissolved.

ADA lawsuits can fix that.

So, this is the way to get make the most of your investment

Yeah, I noticed.

The guy use to take 120 mile UBERs, between cities. Of course it will be very expensive.

i also posted this lol

This is actually good. There’s finally more room for good services offered by smaller companies that care about users.