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For a tech forum it is surprising how many commenters in this thread don’t understand what are “dark patterns”. It’s not fraud. Of course eventually I will see the total cost. It’s about misleading the customer in the process. They don’t have to trick me into paying more, they just need to make me progress far enough that I will choose to pay more to save my own time.


Bait and switch is a dark pattern.


It is literally the definition of a dark pattern lmao

whenver dark patterns come up, and people defend them, i always wonder to myself "who do you work for"




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