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Sneaky Sales and Pricing Practices Online

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday April 26 2016, @04:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the sourceforge-was-guilty-of-this dept.

GungnirSniper writes:

Sneaky user interfaces, such as unwanted bundleware default checkboxes are now expanding into digital newspaper subscriptions. The Boston Globe's site uses lightly-colored close buttons and increases the price as the user goes through the sales process, as well as includes some newsletter-signup defaults. These dishonest-by-design interface elements that are intended to trick or obfuscate users are called dark patterns.

What are some of the most egregious examples you have seen? Have you even been asked to implement a design you found morally distasteful?

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday April 26 2016, @07:19AM

    by anubi (2828) on Tuesday April 26 2016, @07:19AM (#337363) Journal

    So right. If we stopped buying it, businesses would stop foisting it on us.

    It would ruin a restaurant's image to have a picture of a hamburger with cooked cockroach served. The cockroach indicates careless kitchenmanship and spreading of disease.

    Likewise, it should be ruining web business' image to have their webmaster using the same techniques used to spread malware.

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