Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions

Re:Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marke... by darmon333 on Thursday July 11, 2024 @06:20AM (#40935171)

Using porn sites to enhance your search ranking. SEO = Search engine optimization.

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Re:Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marke... by panstromek on Thursday July 11, 2024 @06:55AM (#40935322)

Didn't know this is a thing. How is that even beneficial, when porn is usually shadow banned?

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Re:Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marke... by darmon333 on Friday July 12, 2024 @09:40AM (#40945482)

"How is that even beneficial"

Linking works by linkbacks and other factors, there are specific organizations that reverse engineer googles alogorithms and there's an entire industry dedicated to hacking who gets listed on the first 1-3 pages of googles search results. AKA you can pay an SEO company to tell you what you need to link to get your webpage/company to float up the list of google results when people google for certain keywords. You have to understand there is big money in exposure.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-01/google-s-...

Just see what google pays to be on apples iphone, thats a tonne of money, and we can be certain the bean counters have run the numbers.

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