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by jiggy2011 5036 days ago
At the top of the page:

"You need a Facebook account to register for Spotify"

At the bottom of the page:

"or

Create an account using my e-mail address"

Awesome design there!

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Awesome design there!

I think you meant that sarcastically, but it actually is good design from Spotify's point of view. They really want people to link their accounts to Facebook, but don't want to lose the potential users who steadfastly refuse to do so. Tailoring the language and design to encourage the desired choice is smart, even if it might not be quite right grammatically.

Grammatically? Being delibetately misleading is not quite right ethically.