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Re:Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People ... by Waterluvian on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @03:25PM (#13117973)
Yeah I hate that. Beyond what you said, it also suggests to me, "Not Yet must mean that it will annoy me again and again."

Even if that's not true, I may never visit the page again if my perception is that it's gearing up to annoy me.

I will often see: OK, NOT YET, DON'T SHOW AGAIN. Which I think is fine.

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Re:Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People ... by seanp2k2 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @03:28PM (#13118007)
Yeah, and I don't expect that anyone tricked into / accidentally clicking "rate now" is going to leave anything but a zero-star review complaining about how the app tries to trick them and has annoying nag screens. I've written a few of those myself, then chuckled to myself since the developer was so short-sighted. If more people did that, they'd probably lay off with the "rate my app" pop-ups. If I REALLY love an app, I'll go find the developer on twitter and thank them, and write some nice reviews.
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