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A comment on TradingView's Emotional Subscription Cancellation. Parent comment

Re:TradingView's Emotional Subscription Cancellation by qkeast on Friday July 19, 2024 @06:52AM (#41004795)
I’ve long felt that “dark pattern” isn’t the right term. It obscures the intent behind purposeful decisions made by real humans, by describing a malicious action as an abstract outcome.

The use of urgency here is absolutely a manipulative pattern designed to influence user behaviour for the benefit of the manipulator.

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Re:TradingView's Emotional Subscription Cancellation by randomcarbloke on Friday July 19, 2024 @07:41AM (#41005258)
I wish there was more formalism around the idea of "dark patterns" it strikes me as a term for mechanistic configurations that encourage or elicit specific behaviours yet in practice it's more like intentionally hostile design/ux.
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