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Re:Dark Patterns are designed to confuse and enroll by fullshark on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:18PM (#12181589)
" British Airways lists flights that are the second-lowest price as the lowest,"

That sentence makes it sound like they deliberately always put the 2nd lowest price as the lowest every time. It was pretty misleading or poorly written.

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Re:Dark Patterns are designed to confuse and enroll by yaelwrites on Friday July 29, 2016 @02:12AM (#12185266)
See http://darkpatterns.org/british-airways-distract-from-cheape....
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Re:Dark Patterns are designed to confuse and enroll by FireBeyond on Friday July 29, 2016 @01:21PM (#12188303)
I think that's still really stretching. "In fact, it's only the lowest price in that ticket class".

If I saw those boxes across the board, like in their example image, it doesn't take a second thought, it's "obvious" (to me anyway), that those are the "lowest, per class".

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Re:Dark Patterns are designed to confuse and enroll by yaelwrites on Friday July 29, 2016 @08:18PM (#12190999)
Yeah, that's why I described it as an examples of a bad design choice that may be accidental rather than a dark pattern. I do still think it's misleading, though.
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