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Re:What Is a Dickover? by pooploop64 on Friday May 29, 2026 @09:41PM (#48331526)
>What won't help is complaining that the largely free products we get don't work the way we want them to. This makes no sense and seems bad-faith on multiple levels.
Re:What Is a Dickover? by avaer on Friday May 29, 2026 @10:09PM (#48331704)
On the contrary, I'm assuming good faith on the part of those who implement these "dark" patterns.

They're done for a reason, and that reason is not pure evil from their perspective.

Re:What Is a Dickover? by chrsw on Saturday May 30, 2026 @08:40AM (#48335545)
Why doesn't Apple do dickovers? Or Hacker News?