Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you

Re:Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark pattern... by torstenv on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:29AM (#47000367)

I assume that my tip benefits the people who provide the service (Starbucks employees, not Starbucks shareholders). I also assume that the employees' salaries are not “great.” I am satisfied with my income, so I have no problem tipping. I tip little when the service is not good and tip a lot when the service is excellent.

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Re:Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark pattern... by stbtrax on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:37AM (#47000419)

yeah we all understand the basic premise. But it's applied completely unequally and you subsidizing their salary is keeping starbucks from paying them more. It creates unnecessary friction and decision fatigue for the consumer as well. Those farmworkers doing back breaking work to pick your berries? No tip.

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Re:Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark pattern... by einpoklum on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:35AM (#47000403)

Instead of assuming that - take the amount you wanted to to tip, and donate it to the Starbacks Workers' Union:

https://sbworkersunited.org

or buy their merch to support that worthy struggle.

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Re:Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark pattern... by Mordisquitos on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:29AM (#47000773)

> I assume that my tip benefits the people who provide the service (Starbucks employees, not Starbucks shareholders).

> I also assume that the employees' salaries are not “great.”

The employees' salaries not being “great” benefits the shareholders. How the shareholders get away with paying such low salaries is left as an exercise to the reader.

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