Comment on Welcome to Mozilla’s first-ever Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter
elscallr@lemmy.world 11 months agoNot when the text says “hey, do you want to share your email?” and there’s a big button that says “no, just take me to my results”
This stupid shit is the reason we need warning labels on things. They’re not there to protect the idiots that drink bleach to get rid of covid, they’re there because idiots will drink bleach anyway then blame Clorox for not having the label they wouldn’t have read anyway.
tabular@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They ask for an email before sharing the results in the hopes that they would get more people to sign up. If not a dark pattern then that’s at least sus.
elscallr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just because you don’t have the attention span to not react to every input you see doesn’t make it a dark pattern. It means you need to be less impulsive.
tabular@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Like how a gambler should just stop gambling? The fault is on them if they didn’t read the sign saying stop when the fun stops?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
While others might seek to exploit addictions, addicts absolutely have personally responsibility for their addictions.