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by hakfoo 845 days ago
They may not consciously confirm it, but I suspect someone figured out "learned helplessness is good for business."

New users can be steered through every dark-pattern install process, and upsold into every service since they don't have existing preferences.

They can't directly revert power users to that state, but by keeping the UI in a state of constant flux, they might get some accidental traction from them.

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The absolutely insane pattern of making people click "back" after seeing an email/password login screen to create an account without logging in...