Are year-end summaries a clever way to normalize mass data collection? 📈 From Spotify to Duolingo, companies are gamifying our habits. I’ve written a retrospective on the ethics behind these recaps and the importance of data transparency.

Read more → https://www.nathanbinding.co.uk/blog/wrapped-recapped-and-tracked-dark-ux-a-retrospective/

#DataPrivacy #DarkUX

Emma Thompson 👇🏽 is all of us who are pissed off by the constant nags to use #AI while we are busy writing or coding – just let us be 😠:

https://youtube.com/shorts/H_Ff3fQ_fVI

#UX #DarkUX #Productivity #Writing #Interruptions #Nagging

Mẫu thiết kế UX tối không hiệu quả lâu dài. Thiết kế nên ưu tiên trải nghiệm người dùng #UX #DarkUX #ThiếtKếGiaoDiện #TrảiNghiệmNgườiDùng

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ou06oe/surely_dark_ux_patterns_dont_work_in_the_long_run/

@mayintoronto @mcc Google search results are complete rubbish right now. I don’t even know why would anyone care about SEO anymore.

I’ve seen so many Google Search summaries that end up giving the wrong information. The user would only realize that when clicking to the linked source.

They put sort off a footnote link that only takes users to a side column that further distances them from the source. Why not link directly to the source? #darkux #UX

PSA: The URLs generated by #Instagram when you want to share content from it are unique to you & reveal your account to non-followers (see https://help.instagram.com/2599848706833869). 🧐

If you’re worried about your #privacy, beware of this #DarkUX. 😓

#WTF #DarkPatterns #SocialMedia

Just once it’d be nice to not get tucked by a company. #whitedwarf subscription autorenewed with no notice. Somehow they figured out how to use #paypal which means I have no protection. Reached out to them and got the fuck your fine print enjoy your subscription.

#darkux is bullshit. I will now get a monthly reminder for a year why I’ll never spend a dime with #gamesworkshop ever again.

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Dear Google - I've clicked "No thanks" a hundred times by now. This is harassment at this point. How to I report this to HR? 🤔

#Google #UX #DarkUX #YouTube #YouTubeTV #Malvertising

There seems to be some dark UX cooking with merchants and PayPal's "automatic payments" functionality.

I checked my PayPal's active subscriptions and noticed following:
- There are automatic payments for merchants where I wasn't aware of consenting to an automatic payment scheme.
- I have quite a few active payment subscriptions for services where I have cancelled recurring payments long time ago.

I'm not aware of abuse of the unnecessary active automatic payments but by principle it sucks that merchants don't protect consumer payment information with expected rigor.

#paypal #darkux #risk