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Re:Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @10:34AM (#8227259)
From my relatively small experience I remember EasyJet trying to upsell random crap in a similar way to RyanAir. I might be misremembering though, I haven't flew with any of them since last year.

Anyway, I meant why there are no companies with marketing messages that would amount to "we're not going to fuck you over like the Other Company We Can't Name".

Re:Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK by Someone1234 on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @12:09PM (#8227908)
Last time I flew with EasyJet I didn't get any strong upset. They do try to sell you insurance but the default is "no" and they also sell food/drinks onboard. No real hidden fees or additional charges aside from that. You do need to understand the baggage policy however.
Re:Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK by jasonlotito on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @01:00PM (#8228251)
> trying to upsell random crap in a similar way to RyanAir

"Trying to upsell" and "trying to hide the opt-out of an upsale" are not the same thing. I see no problem with a company trying to upsell you, and lumping that in with what RyanAir is doing is wrong.

Re:Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK by rtb on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @12:01PM (#8227854)
> I meant why there are no companies with marketing messages that would amount to "we're not going to fuck you over like the Other Company We Can't Name".

Probably because they can't name them in the ads, which would make the message rather confusing :-)

Re:Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @12:43PM (#8228148)
Well, if the other company is doing something bad, it wouldn't be difficult. Actually, to provide some sort of an answer to my original question, we had sort-of this style of marketing with domain registrar, i.e. "hey, we don't try to upsell you crap, don't support SOPA and definitely don't shoot elephants for fun!".
Re:Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK by ZoFreX on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @03:03PM (#8228860)
Easyjet have an upsell but at least the price you see on the homepage is the price you pay at the end, unless you go for the upsell. It's predictable.
Re:Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK by Wohui on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @12:08PM (#8227903)
I can only think of DuckDuckGo ("we won't track you").