It’s been a while since I last downloaded anaconda. But I remember when clicking on the download page, it would show the usual “choose your OS > download binary” (eg this archived version in 2019).
Recently I helped someone else set it up and it showed a form to put on email, with smaller gray text near the bottom of the form about skipping it.
Does this count as a dark pattern?
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They hit two dark patterns out of a possible seven.
I should make a browser plug-in that finds dark patterns and reverses them.
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First two: using color and button size/placement to guide clicks
The ones they didn’t do:
- Misdirection of reason for interacting with elements
- pre-selecting the checkbox
- making the background elements a clickbox
- using colors to scare user into a certain action
- using text to scare user into a certain action
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