8 years ago
When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer
Harry Brignull, a user-experience consultant in Britain who helps websites and apps develop consumer-friendly features, has a professional bone to pick with sites that seem to maneuver people into signing up for services they might not actually want. He even has a name for the exploitative techniques: “dark patterns.” To him, these are debased versions of the typical sign-up...
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