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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That is not 2 separate buttons on the right, like I initially thought clicking through checkout.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Yes. That's Amazon using dark patterns. This demonstrates that enshittification is not confined to social media.

Ooop, it may have happened even before Twitter, Reddit etc.

From Corey Doctorow: Ultimately, it doesn't matter if Amazon's enshittification is because [Jeff] Bezos was a cynic or because he sold out. Once Amazon could make more money by screwing its customers, that screw-job became a fait accompli.