[ncallaway]

Sure they could do that. You're essentially asking them to implement an additional feature to handle a new use case—a totally reasonable thing to ask.

But it seems like it's really a stretch to say "it's a dark pattern to not implement this feature that covers my use case". If not implementing a desired feature is a "dark pattern", then I'm not really sure I know what constitutes a dark pattern

[benrbray]

The behavior I'm describing is how the website used to work. The put in extra work to prevent users like me from using it this way.