this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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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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I've personally fallen for this, it works and it's intentional. Anything that tricks a user into clicking on something they didn't mean to is a dark pattern and asshole design.