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I'm so thankful for the Reddit redesign, I had a serious problem spending way too much time on that site. Now it's almost completely unusable.
So is letting you know about old.reddit.com a bad thing?
A common one is fake consent popups for system notifications. Websites need to ask for consent before sending system notifications via the Notifications API. If a user declines, that website is blocked from asking again (for obvious reasons) But many websites cheat this by showing a fake consent popup designed to mimic what the browser would show. If a user clicks "Decline" on the fake popup, the website won't show t…
A similar one is asking you to rate the app via the native modal (which does nothing) and if you rate with 5 stars they redirect you to the app store to vote there (where it counts). If you rate them with 1-3 stars they prompt you to leave feedback instead.
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Reddit is just as guilty of this. If you want to see all the comments on a thread on their mobile site, you're pushed to install their official app and presumably create an account when doing so. As far as I can tell, the best workaround is to use the desktop site.
I'm so thankful for the Reddit redesign, I had a serious problem spending way too much time on that site. Now it's almost completely unusable.
Connecting to an Azure AD / Office 365 account from a desktop application will pop up a dialog box with a small hidden blue link on the bottom left corner to "log in to this application only". The big button in the usual OK position will let the organisation manage your device , including pushing software to it and remote wiping. Even if it's not their device. Even if you're just logging in to one app, one time. Micr…
Presumably what it's doing is trying to get you to select their recommended content instead of searching for whatever you are looking for.
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users continued to put things in their cart "so they wouldn't forget them". It was a very frustrating result; this was the exact behavior we were hoping that Lists would eliminate. My wife does this, not just to Etsy, but on all kinds of e-commerce sites. So I apologize on her behalf. I suspect that it's related that she's also one of those people who will never bookmark a web page. Instead, she keeps a hundred tabs…
Don't apologize. It's a pretty common practice. Some e-commerce vendors may not like it, because it disturbs their statistics or marketing shenanigans, but the error here is on their side - they assume that putting something in a cart is an intent to purchase. That assumption is wrong. It's obvious why this happens. The shopping cart, as an e-commerce pattern, is a bookmarking tool . You put stuff there, it stays the…
Seems like the reasonable thing to do in the above case is to have a default "shopping list", and if someone puts an item into their cart and doesn't buy it within the allotted time, it gets automatically moved to the "shopping list". Make the shopping list highly visible on all the cart-related views. Problem solved?
Connecting to an Azure AD / Office 365 account from a desktop application will pop up a dialog box with a small hidden blue link on the bottom left corner to "log in to this application only". The big button in the usual OK position will let the organisation manage your device , including pushing software to it and remote wiping. Even if it's not their device. Even if you're just logging in to one app, one time. Micr…
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The "hold-your-offline-device-hostage-until-you-attempt-to-connect" pattern. It goes something like this: When setting up a new unlinked kindle device, Amazon tries to trick you into connecting to the internet by showing a wifi setup screen that cannot be skipped. The only way to skip it is to supply the device with bad credentials and let it attempt to connect and fail. Only when it fails will it allow its owner to…
Since beginning of the year, I have installed two Win10 two times. As I expected some dark patterns, I made sure that these machines were not physically connected to any network. Even this worked, it still managed to piss me of by forcing security questions for admin user. Seems that only way to avoid this "feature", is to modify register. Even on pro-version. There might have been some obscure way of avoiding connec…
This was for windows pro, I believe they are more pushy on online accounts in windows home.
Not sure when they'll inevitably change install again to try to force more issues.
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Reddit is just as guilty of this. If you want to see all the comments on a thread on their mobile site, you're pushed to install their official app and presumably create an account when doing so. As far as I can tell, the best workaround is to use the desktop site.
Not just the website, but the old.reddit version. The new Reddit design is a disaster in terms of usability. I also disable all custom subreddit styles, because so many of them are horrible.
I think a more effective route forward here is for places like YC to set standards for their portfolio companies. Only the strongest investors can do this, but once they do, it will setup a new playing field and the YC brand could mean 'no dark patterns here' in the way that buying an Apple product signifies quality hardware and privacy. It could act as an 'integrity' label that companies purchasing software would us…
