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Re:Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shop... by RocketSyntax on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @11:19AM (#20285843)
How is it that every hotel seems to have "1 room left!"

I'm a repeat user of your booking site, why would you treat me like a naive fool?

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Re:Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shop... by SaladFork on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:19PM (#20296469)
Relevant discussion from yesterday too:

"Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20284298

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Re:Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shop... by mprev on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @12:37PM (#20286625)
I totally get what you're saying but maybe it's because you're a repeat user that they don't change this.
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