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Adobe flash update notification always have the McAfee Antivirus trial installer pre-selected by default. Pisses me off every time.
If on Windows, install Unchecky https://unchecky.com/ It unselects everything by default...
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Loading the content then redirecting to or popping over an uncloseable email form is a bait and switch, especially if you are coming from a search engine result.
Exactly, its a SEO scam. I'm sure Google will figure out a way to stop it and give them the 40th page result they deserve.
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The author used it as an example of something that may just be an unintuitive UI.
" British Airways lists flights that are the second-lowest price as the lowest," That sentence makes it sound like they deliberately always put the 2nd lowest price as the lowest every time. It was pretty misleading or poorly written.
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It really should be against the law to offer a paid subscription that you can sign up for online that you can't cancel online.
How can I vote for this? Is there such a bill we can pay --er..encourage congresspeople to endorse?
Anyone else think this could work?
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I have yet to work out whether "limited hours for an automated system" is a dark pattern, or sheer stupidity. The most horrifying variant I've seen recently was a government website that kept 9am-5pm hours. No human interaction or real-time events anywhere, but logins were locked after business hours. I'm guessing they didn't want to arrange special downtime periods for changes, and the only alternative they could th…
> ...a government website that kept 9am-5pm hours... Sometimes this is done because the "opening times" are baked into existing process, (or in some cases, legislation), and so the digital replacement for the old meat-and-paper process must be subject to the same seemingly crazy time restrictions. It seems mad, but if you're an underfunded branch of the state, trying to replace a paper-based process with a website, o…
Free internet at libraries could've been a way to work around this inequality of access, but the libraries have business hours too
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You're upset that search got rebranded to Cortana? It can definitely search your entire PC. I just typed the name of a script I have sitting on my D: drive and pressed enter and it opened it.
It can't. I have a Super User post [1] that describes the problem in detail. Windows Search and Cortana appear to be two separate things. If what I describe in my post is working on your computer, we should talk... I need to find a solution to this issue and Microsoft Support couldn't help. Can you tell me - do you have Cortana's voice stuff enabled? Do you have her "learning" about you enabled in settings? Did you u…
People should use the credit card dispute process more often. If a company has made it unreasonably difficult to cancel, or charged money that you didn't actually agree to pay (because they hid the notice too well), that's exactly what chargebacks are for.
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How can I vote for this? Is there such a bill we can pay --er..encourage congresspeople to endorse?
Ha ha. I'm English, so I've never been entirely sure how American lobbying works, but ever since I learned of it I've thought it could be an idea to set up a website (lobby.com) where people could propose laws and people could pledge donations to get laws enacted that they like the look of. If a particular law gets enough pledges to reach a particular financial threshold then the money is deducted from the accounts a…