Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet
by opportune on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @06:25PM
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I had just thought of this exact analogy too. Another one that came to mind is a forced/coerced confession. Usually it's combined with something more extreme like sleep deprivation/psychological abuse but the way it often works is just asking someone over and over for hours whether they committed the crime / how they did it. Eventually people confess just to make it stop. I see this as the same thing on a smaller scale: eventually you just accept the terms/update/whatever to make the annoying notifications go away. But you were still coerced into that decision out of annoyance and frustration
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