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Re:Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People ... by mvid on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @03:56PM (#13118262)
That is absolutely what happens. So irritated people like me go out of their way to open the app store and review directly.
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Re:Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People ... by Hydraulix989 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @11:01PM (#13120371)
There's also the brilliant idea that they show a giant "Why?" text box if you rate 1 or 2 stars, so that you type away your frustrations and after sufficiently venting, you do not actually go to the App Store to write that review.
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