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Qualia: Living Ad-Free and Breaking Away from Dark Patterns, Hidden Fees, and More

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They bold the price at the top as well as calling it Total and then in the line items they do their best to blend the option of removing $5 with the other two options of adding more costs.

I wish I would have taken a photo of it before I circled the content and wrote the comment. I can only imagine how many people fall victim to this and are paying an additional $5.

With all that being said, I already support the state parks as my license plate is a special state park plate which costs extra per year to have.

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[–] qlya 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This community is about dark patterns. Sounds like you're in the wrong place.

[–] simplymath 2 points 2 months ago

Hiding the true cost of road maintenance and offloading it on everyone else is a dark pattern, homey.