Dark Patterns, the Ratchet

Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet by xg15 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:49PM (#16693061)

> The longstanding root of the problem is that we're relying on software that is under the control of an adversarial party, especially for creating a UI.

One of the original ideas of the "semantic web" was that the entities that provide data and the entities that display the data should be decoupled and freely combinable by the user.

That idea didn't gain particularly large support with website developers.

I wonder why... /s

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Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:57PM (#16694887)

> the entities that provide data and the entities that display the data should be decoupled and freely combinable by the user

Honest question: does Google AMP [1] fit this mold?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages

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Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:04AM (#16695182)

Isn't that still tightly coupled from the publisher to Google?

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Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet by always_good on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:30PM (#16694094)

Because there isn't much incentive to do something that makes it easier to not get paid for your content?

It already rubs me the wrong way when Google scrapes content from sites. I'm not surprised the dream failed if that's what it was.

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Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet by kilburn on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:30PM (#16694422)

"/s" at the end of a comment means the author was being sarcastic ;)

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Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet by dmitrygr on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:31PM (#16694429)

robots.txt

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