Creative but annoying PayPal dark pattern

Re:Creative but annoying PayPal dark pattern by gruez on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:36PM (#28554664)

hanlon's razor applies here. Sure, it could be some sort of malicious trick to get people to click their ads, ...or it could be because the ad is slow to load.

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Re:Creative but annoying PayPal dark pattern by Stevvo on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:51PM (#28554847)

Well, no. Developers choose when & how each image on the page is loaded.

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Re:Creative but annoying PayPal dark pattern by isabelc on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:15PM (#28555984)

By "Hanlon's razor," he's implying the developers may just be stupid.

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Re:Creative but annoying PayPal dark pattern by greyivy on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:59PM (#28555782)

And can set an explicit size to prevent layout shift. This certainly feels intentional.

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Re:Creative but annoying PayPal dark pattern by gruez on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:11PM (#28555935)

>And can set an explicit size to prevent layout shift

works great if you have tight coupling, but what if the guys in charge of the login page is on a different team than the marketing guys? What if the marketing guys want the ability to arbitrarily change ads without involving the login page team? I don't dispute that it could be made better, but it's very easy to build it badly, and there isn't much evidence that it's intentionally built badly.

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