U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark patterns' tricks

Re:U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark pa... by ipad23 on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @11:09PM (#19621455)

so, users would much rather get ads they aren't interested in? the point of a/b testing is to show you something you want to see and might be interested in purchasing.

This is a good thing

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Re:U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark pa... by reaperducer on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @12:17AM (#19621795)

the point of a/b testing is to show you something you want to see

Not always. A/B testing is the reason that we now have weapons-grade clickbait headlines, and those terrible little grids of ads at the bottom of blog posts. Neither of those are good things.

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Re:U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark pa... by Mirioron on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @04:45AM (#19622892)

And you think we couldn't get to that point without A/B testing? Yellow journalism has been around for much longer than websites.

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