Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered

Re:Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered by vinchuco on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @12:36AM (#13164744)

On mobile, you have to click the "show full article" to, well, show the full article. It really irks me that not only this is unnecessary, but possibly devious, a dark design pattern:

You want to see what's inside, but you haven't decided if you care, however by clicking it you're tricked into thinking you do (after all, you are the one clicked on it, now you're invested, it's not like it was the carefully crafted headline /s).

Do I exaggerate?

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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered by inimino on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:35AM (#13165193)

Dark patterns lead people to decisions that are not in their best interest, here the decision is reading the article. Seems a stretch.

A less conspiratorial explanation is that adding the click lets them know who reads the article and who doesn't.

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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered by KON_Air on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:27AM (#13165167)

Well, perhaps a little. Most of those "show rest of the article" buttons are there to hide "not yet fully loaded state" of the page, some for checking subscription/login etc.

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