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AssholeDesign
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
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Clicked on a link to read an article, and was met with this pop-up. I decided to click on the privacy policy link to view what I was agreeing to. It cannot be viewed unless you agree to what you haven't read yet.
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I don't see anyone falling for this either, if they were going to they would already have edge installed.
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Non private mode on left. I am not logged in but have cookies enabled. Right is private mode.
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The X doesn't close - the three dots don't bring up a menu - both of those open the advertisement's URL the same as clicking on the ad itself
(media.kbin.social)
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“Processing preferences” for half a minute after opting out everything. That was a first 4 me
(feddit.de)
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Marketing should always be OPT-IN by default, but these extra steps to opt out is truly asshole design.
Oh, and on the opt-out confirmation screen, you get two options: Yes or No. The button colour for "yes" is white, and the “no” button matches the “save” button on the previous screen, so it's easy to accidentally cancel the opt-out. Double-asshole design!
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Not quite sure what they represent but their new slogan means "quiet tummy" that translates to "feel safe" and a similar saying as "gut feeling"...
They may be tummies but look like something entirely different. They have TV commercials with them talking to each other
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automatically turning on new (creepy)feature with no single click to disable them
(discuss.tchncs.de)
there's just this vague recommendation to "turn it off in settings." no link, no toggle, nothing.
had to hunt for the relevant setting in the app(even their settings menu is down under in the list when you tap on your avatar.
image transcription:
a screenshot of Google play store which has a popup that can only be disabled by pressing OK button at the bottom.
the popup contains the following text:
Google is optimising app installs with your help
Google Play makes apps faster to install, open and run based on what people are using most.
The first time that you open an app after installing, Google notes which parts of the app you use. When enough people do this, your apps will install faster.
App install optimisation is automatically turned on, but you can turn it off in settings. Learn more
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Doordash now has a tab to advertise other stores that you can accidentally swipe-up when trying to scroll down the menu
(lemmy.world)
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The game is Wild Racing 9 (the made-for-china version of Asphalt 9) and when you launch it, it tries to download an appgallery ad, but since I'm quite far from the chinese servers (I'm from Costa Rica) it mostly times out.
And no the "Don't show again" option does not get rid of all ads. It just does not show that specific ad in general.
