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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by mrob on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:56PM (#20288028)
It's tricking people into waiting for nothing.
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Re:Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge by parliament32 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:13PM (#20288663)
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.

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