Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge
by mrob on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:28PM
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It's a dark pattern, because it's deliberately wasting everybody's time to cater to people who refuse to learn. It should instead say "verification complete in n milliseconds" (or n microseconds if the milliseconds number looks too small). There could even be a "details" link with a log of all the verification steps.
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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge
by sbov on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:04PM
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That's not really what dark pattern means. They're about tricking people into doing something they otherwise wouldn't.
Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge
by mrob on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:56PM
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It's tricking people into waiting for nothing.
Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge
by parliament32 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:13PM
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This is getting pedantic but: it's not tricking people into anything. People don't have a choice. In a real dark pattern, you're trying to convince users to do something -- here, the users were going to (get their numbers verified, do the web search, whatever) anyway, it's just the illusion of doing more work.
It's shitty but it's not evil.