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Re: The slippery slope

#32

Very well written. When you turn against your customers' welfare, you're almost always going down a path of failure in the long run.

Banks seem to be doing ok.

For now. It's only a matter of time before a startup or two breaks that industry down just like they have for many others.

Re: The slippery slope

#34
post #3

To disable Ad Tracking under IOS, go to Settings > General > About > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking to On This is a worthwhile read (with excellent examples) on the ubiquitous "Click here to not receive third-party messages" pattern.

I also liked the idea of "Dark Pattern" that he linked and introduced.

Re: The slippery slope

#35
post #3

To disable Ad Tracking under IOS, go to Settings > General > About > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking to On This is a worthwhile read (with excellent examples) on the ubiquitous "Click here to not receive third-party messages" pattern.

This fall onwards it'll be: Settings > Privacy > Advertising.

Source?

Re: The slippery slope

#37
post #14

All I'm going to say is that even though it's awful The Ladders have all those tricks, they're successful. Not saying the ends justify the means, but I wonder how their business would look otherwise.

Did you happen to read the section on Experts Exchange?

Re: The slippery slope

#38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Banks seem to be doing ok.

For now. It's only a matter of time before a startup or two breaks that industry down just like they have for many others.

I'm a happy customer of both Simple.com and USAA. Both are very customer focused banks. The industry is being broken down, just really really slowly.
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