Curious website that explains how pages want to deceive you with examples (save to use and not taken very seriously)

  • Discord. The “Gift nitro” button is placed where in a previous version the “upload file” button was

    Additionally the window once opened, can’t be closed with the ESC key unlike other windows.

    Finally you had to decline twice before that was changed to only be once.

    Overall a very disgusting move on what was supposed to be a user friendly program

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      8 months ago

      It had enough eye candies for the casual market, but that was it. I still mourn for the death of IRC outside the tech-dev circles.

      • zanyllama52
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        8 months ago

        I tried discord once years ago. Didn’t care for it as a product, nor did I care for the privacy policy.

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    9 months ago

    A big one is when an advert is made to look and feel like organic content. The “Ad” flag (legally required) is in faint small font like someone forced them to have it there.

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      9 months ago

      That first one… It makes me laugh. It has never affected me when companies use derogatory or belittling language. I decline them with a smile on my face but I can see how it might work on others.