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Re:Show HN: Beat video game addiction by p1necone on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:12PM (#18869982)
Filled out the quiz for shits and giggles, last step: "What is your email so we can send you your results".

Holy dark UI patterns Batman.

Re:Show HN: Beat video game addiction by fartcannon on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:15PM (#18870001)
Is there a way to report a link for dark patterns? If not, why isn't there? Exploiting someone's fears/addicition is a deplorable way to build an email spam list.
Re:Show HN: Beat video game addiction by guessmyname on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:17PM (#18870020)
You can send the link to @darkpatterns on Twitter [1].

They run the “Dark Patterns” website which is quite famous.

[1] https://twitter.com/darkpatterns

[2] https://darkpatterns.org/

Re:Show HN: Beat video game addiction by p1necone on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:17PM (#18870019)
The worst part is, after giving it a burner email so I could see the results, it just showed me them in the UI without requiring me to check the email anyway. I guess I'll monitor it to see if I get any spam.

(I got 4/9 if you're curious)

Re:Show HN: Beat video game addiction by stabbles on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:16PM (#18870011)
Cause obviously the heavy machinery to process all nine yes-or-no-questions can never be implemented client side
Re:Show HN: Beat video game addiction by notacoward on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:23PM (#18870059)
Agreed. Instant tab close for me. Flagging the "story" and downvoting the obvious shills.