TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to File Your Taxes

Re:TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to F... by asimpletune on Monday April 22, 2019 @10:34AM (#19719208)

Credit Karma does a good job providing free federal and state tax filing.

Disclaimer: I work there but not on tax

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Re:TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to F... by sinatra on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:15PM (#19721232)

If you work there, maybe you can pass this along to the right people: I tried creating an account for filing taxes, CK told me my SSN needed to be unfrozen (that shouldn't matter for tax filing purposes), I temporarily unfroze my SSN and kept retrying to create my account on CK. For the next two days, it kept telling me my SSN was frozen. Then, I gave up!

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Re:TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to F... by asimpletune on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @11:00AM (#19729268)

I’ll definitely pass that along. Thanks for taking the time to share.

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Re:TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to F... by jakelazaroff on Monday April 22, 2019 @11:01AM (#19719424)

I don't work at Credit Karma so I can second this, disclaimer-free!

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Re:TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to F... by SilasX on Monday April 22, 2019 @11:15AM (#19719517)

Not for me, since moving to a different state within the year is apparently too complicated for them.

I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, though.

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Re:TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns to Trick You into Paying to F... by throwaway44562 on Monday April 22, 2019 @03:06PM (#19721804)

If there was a way to sign up with a VoIP number I would definitely try it.

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