How Dark Patterns Trick You Online

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Jalen Edington "dlbtree"
 
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[WholesomeLad]

Whoever first found out how to delete your amazon account is a legend.

[ErnestJay]

The largest trap in this digital age is "accept the terms and condition" where nobody reads it, yet... everyone accept it.

[elliotkubath]

Tried to exit full screen and instead I added this to favorites, subscribed to a women’s magazine and switched off the lamp. Doooh! Darn dark patterns.

[tx]

I kinda reversed these "dark patterns" in my mind, now i'm reflectively clicking on the small and greyed out links instead of the bright and shiny buttons.

[glanni]

We really ought to have a "Defence against the dark patterns" teaching subject in school!

[redactdead]

They have actually already changed how you delete your Amazon account, there is no longer a Login and Security option, you just select "Other non-order questions" then "Something else" and with no indication that this is the correct procedure, choose to contact them (e.g. Chat). After talking to them and convincing them to delete your account, they'll send you an email attempting to convince you to delete your account at the bottom of which is a link to send a message to Amazon (the same messenger used to query an order) where you must ask them to close your account, and assuming they do not send you back into a loop of talking to an assistant, they will close your account in a few weeks.

[cwubicpwaywr]

if there is an fake dust on an ad but your monitor does not have touch screen... you are saved

[wade-potato]

This video is literally an r/assholedesign showcase

[dielfonelletab]

One little thing I see sometimes on youtube videos (and I don't think the creators do it on purpose) is that they transition into the ad immediately after the content is finished, with not so much as a pause or a change in the scene, so it takes you a few moments to even realize that you are watching an ad.

[bits]

I hate that "Red Cross" sign on ads

[GraveUypo]

someone should make a site that lists everything in the terms agreement in 200 words or less.

[SikoSoft]

I worked for a company where the boss wanted me to put some smudgy pixels in the icon for the app I was building for the purpose of tricking people into touching the button more to wipe it away.


I advised against it and we didn't.

[Daniel-brnc]

Did I just get dark patterned into getting NordVPN?

[Miimu]

5:10 Professor Snape was the best Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, that's for sure.

[mrmovieguy]

Let's all go annoy the Amazon support people about closing accounts

[Orrinn]

4:33 “Right side of the law” *proceeds to go on the left side of the law*

[noseboy]

One very annoying example of this is when installing the Windows 10 operating system the user is prompted to decide how their settings will be configured, and the default option (which is made much more prevalent on the secreen) to keep defaults benefits Microsoft greatly but you have to click the more subtle advanced options to disable their access to much of your data.

[eternapesadilla]

Facebook won't let me delete my acount forever. They always say after deleting it: if you ever want to reopen your acount you just need to sign in. And somehow I always end up signing in on accident after months of not using it. The only way to delete it permanently is to delete my email adress and my phone number... and never ever sign in again by accident. But truly... it's never deleted.

And what was worse. Was that after 7 years of facebook use... alot... alot of photos were stored in the memory of the social app. And after deleting it the first time, people could still see photos of me. So i had to delete the photos... but ofcourse, they don't let you delete all the photos at once. So I had to go photo by photo and coment by coment and friend by friend to delete every single piece of my facebook existence. Which took two days. Two days! And it still exists... haunting me as a ghost... as some type of black hole that can reopen at anytime even though it's completly empty and hollow... it's like a cold corridor that lacks memory but still exists just to haunt me.

[seasalt]

To be honest that company that puts a speck of dust on their add is smart af

[DJGGG]

3:21 *I actually touched my screen because I though it was something on my screen..*