[molsson]

I hate when you browse through 10-15 websites and for all of them you quickly click the "Accept" button in the bottom banner to get rid of the irritating cookie banners.

And then suddenly, on the 16th website they put a fucking "Buy our thing" button in a bottom bar that you quickly click on without even thinking twice.

[skummetmaelk]

There needs to be a way to punish deliberate subversion of expectation. The whole "haha gotcha" mentality is harmful to society in general. The problem is much wider than just dark UI patterns on the web.

[SQueeeeeL]

It's an impossibility given how our society is structured. A hundred years ago, if Tim's General Store did something shady, there was both social (hey Tim, wtf we're buddies this town only has 50 people) and economic (I'm never going back there and I'm 10% of Tim's regular customers). In this circumstance, our system works very well. But because of increased communication and transportation, pretty much everywhere you can consume from is a multi-national corporation. If Walmart overcharges you for a shovel, you can get your money back, but otherwise don't have any meaningful say about your experience, and probably don't have a meaningful alternative. Same with the internet, there are millions of people hitting up Google the same way you are, even if you blacklist "spamshitblog.net"; most people won't. People like RMS realized this a long time ago, but they basically got shouted down, and I definitely don't think we're gonna stop the train of unchecked free markets anytime soon.

TLDR: The market always wins, just download an adblocker.

[skummetmaelk]

I agree completely. It's just a shame.

[raverbashing]

Oh yeah the other day I saw a website that was showing ads in the fsking GDPR popup (when I tried to "customize" the experience).

Great job guys