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by p1necone 2721 days ago
Filled out the quiz for shits and giggles, last step: "What is your email so we can send you your results".

Holy dark UI patterns Batman.

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Is there a way to report a link for dark patterns? If not, why isn't there? Exploiting someone's fears/addicition is a deplorable way to build an email spam list.
You can send the link to @darkpatterns on Twitter [1].

They run the “Dark Patterns” website which is quite famous.

[1] https://twitter.com/darkpatterns

[2] https://darkpatterns.org/

The worst part is, after giving it a burner email so I could see the results, it just showed me them in the UI without requiring me to check the email anyway. I guess I'll monitor it to see if I get any spam.

(I got 4/9 if you're curious)

Cause obviously the heavy machinery to process all nine yes-or-no-questions can never be implemented client side
Agreed. Instant tab close for me. Flagging the "story" and downvoting the obvious shills.