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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

Cat life is like read life - other cats imposing on other cats... 

Hard to believe from this one photo perhaps but this is how I feel knowing what I know...

Seeing what people do to financial others some without knowing but the material and bits of paper we use also cause this effect and struggle between cats on this

I as a cat understanding cats above us are us lesser cats and restricting our breathing / sucking our energy flowing it all into 🏦 for more but sometimes the other online don't understand that as main root of all problems since you don't 'see' bank loans killing people or devaluing energy all other money behind our back over time as pure profit for them.

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life is like real life - other cats imposing on other ...

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

#Bluesky Funded by Russian money?... 💲RUBLE💲 

" Blue sky’s principal funder Blockchain Capital LLC is run in part by Kirill Dorofeev, who also works for VK, Russia’s state network... "

+ more pictures in post credited at the end but the above quote is main point and my comments continue about and anything funded having problems,,,
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MY COMMENT
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Even though all money is dirty and banks ARE political and politically lending, we can choose the lesser evil, and it's something we need to solve that fund these things...

🎆 *Again* 🎆 ALL money is devaluing us every second by how banks use it behind our backs diluting the money by lending whether it's in Ru💲💲ia or U💲A as Dollars or ANY another kind of state like the .

It's all oppression and are us mathematically and giving maths / - re-loaning what they don't have ETC....

ONCE we realise it's all a trap that they copy and paste in every country. them we can start to work on better politics whether it's money and who do with / get used and abuse by.

Banks are a kind and allowed by States to build themselves (not the people) and they fund ALL and don't fund or .

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🔗 Orig Sources :
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⭐ 1/ @davetroy with post toad.social/@davetroy/11349345

⭐ 2/ I was tipped off by above by Mastodon Migration (also worth following) @mastodonmigration with their post: mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

Useless people / People are losing value as individuals 

⬇️ Useless people ⬇️

Useless people are not only because you or others have skills or not, but if system and people want it (or not).

Systems devalue many types of people and skill so even others wanted they can't find word.


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⬇️ People are losing value ⬇️

People are losing value as people / individuals themselves because now systems are more weighted according to what those controllers and "system" wants (doesn't want).

What systems don't provide (like diversity) means it's not just about your skills but if system and people want it.

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

Life's Default Settings... 

...courtesy of people who...

➡️ a) didn't do anything about the $Default # or only cursed and complained to themselves or the TV
➡️ b) the bad people who tried and continued to succeed mostly unchallenged

... = =

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And while you're here
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➡️ Why We Should Work Less, and Live and Learn More by @openculture

(Bertrand Russell & Buckminster Fuller)

openculture.com/2024/01/bertra

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

#Money is one of the most expensive things (did you ever think of that?) 

Did you realise you are paying for money while using it? And that itself cheapens money each transaction making all money in the pool less than it says on the note?

Give that some thought.

You are 'giving' it to each other at cost and thinking 100 means giving 100 on the note (after transaction fees, paying for loans etc)...

for money is quite stupid as it's + %'s + fees + loans across and ALL banking devalues instantly the whole money supply AND spirals negatively so 🌀 like a vortex of value taken off money (not just your but whoever does whatever also effect your money, like diluting it when any loan is given by any bank). You're effective money is less each time the system gives out massive loans and more than the bank has!

Money therefore carries not just a bit of devaluing but across every moment it's in circulation (that's part of the they know and people don't).
People can't see it. Perfect.

Holding money is obviously little benefit for that exact reason of so people try to do "more" with it involving more and more of this list above AND banks it "LEGALLY" upto 10x more than they have is the THE injustice and power leveraged that people don't have (=inequality)

To 'make more money' is just making more debt first (for others and you, and then bank using your savings while you sleep).

Therefore the money supply too is always behind / trying to catch the interest / debt on loans. It's a mission impossible to create power over people.

Ever feel like there isn't enough money? Guess why - it's getting re-loaned by extra-ordinary fake ways and bubbles of loaning...

The clever maths and negative direction of numbers = negative humanity. We see it in all the who allow and install banks on high street to "sell us money" which as a sentence is crazy paying 10 for each 100... because a 100 note then because 90!

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Basically negative maths / with positive-looking numbers... compound debt at it's best which translates to it's people in negative forms proportionately (if not worse).

🐱 It's like a cat trying to chase it's own tail. The cats in are chasing tails in the same way as it gets a bit faster each turn of loans from Bank's using people's savings to only make more money for banks more than actually catching something for themselves... 🏦

Underwritten by Banks there's just fake debt more than real value - while people have to try find money from somewhere, looking for work and getting a house + paying %'s + paying fees and basically work for free while paying for the world over and over again while it's all the houses etc have already been paid and only need maintenance which people pay for via and pots that go for .

✈️ Don't forget Banks pay for war across the globe 🌐 and often both sides. 💣


:bomberman: with

Money (Banks + Gov) are DIRECTLY relative to imbalance / via numbers +
+ + If
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Inspired partially by - @jk
mastodon.social/@jk/1133675122

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

#Banks #Money #Power #Profit #Devaluing #People 

Every hour ⏲️ you have money is in a bank it's going towards being re-loaned to someone else which your money everyone's in the money supply (because it's money as soon as they re-loan). The small interest 5% they _might)_ give is nothing compared to what they out and get from . (%'s = $$$$$%'s)

When bank loans the money you keep there and gives a loan out to someone else (for more than what you gives them like 5-10 times your account) then they cause everyone's
in accounts to drop. 📉📉📉

This is the real power base (inequality) used by every country to undermine it's people.

Isn't it odd all these countries having same problems use the same ?

towards love / better communication not devaluing 🏦 money...

by

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

Alipay mobile payment service might be BIGGER than of many global banks... 

Group Set to Raise $34 Billion in World’s Biggest I.P.O. (Published 2020)

3-4 minutes - Technology|

nytimes.com/2020/10/26/technol

The online spinoff, which offers people in a one-stop shop for , and more, will list shares in Hong Kong and .

Using Alipay at a market in , China. The more people use Alipay, the more data it gathers about their spending .

Credit...Alex Plavevski/EPA, via Shutterstock

Raymond Zhong

Published Oct. 26, 2020
Updated Nov. 6, 2020

Ant Group, the technology titan, is set to raise around $34 billion when its begin in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the coming weeks, which would make its initial public offering the largest on record.

The company, the parent of the , priced its shares around $10.30 apiece, according to documents released on Monday by in the two cities. At that price, the company would be worth around $310 billion, a market value comparable to that of and more than that of many other global .

The money Ant raises would surpass the $29.4 billion that Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil company, , raised when it went public last year. Ant’s listing would also be larger than that of its sister company, the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, which raised $25 billion when its shares started trading on the Stock Exchange in 2014.

For hundreds of millions of people in China, Alipay may as well be a . It is their card,# debit card, fund and even insurance broker — all on a single mobile platform. It is a lender to small businesses, both online and off, that might otherwise be ignored by China’s big state-run . Alipay has more than 730 million monthly , more than twice the population of the / . By comparison, has 346 million active accounts.

Like other giant internet companies, Ant says its strength lies in performing a large number of different tasks at once. The more people use Alipay to purchase lattes, for example, the more data it gathers about their spending power. Ant says this information helps it offer loans, investments and insurance policies that suit users’ needs. The data also helps Ant and its partner banks determine who is likely to pay them back.

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

LOOK AT IT CLOSELY. "MONEY"



as

(OR WHATEVER COPY YOU HAVE) as basis of almost all as

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

"This can't end well"... unless you do something... about #Banks 💲 > 🏦 <💲 

" Mega corporations, mega banks and governments can receive huge-mongous bailouts or debts rolled over in perpetuity, or forgiven, using money created out of nothing and backed by the US taxpayers, but citizens are required to be accountable!?

This can't end well."

from hashtag 💲 > 🏦 <💲 > 🏦 <💲or

by Perspective @Perspective

Post: c.im/@Perspective/113470308500

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BUT.... the last bit in that post (similar to Henry Ford) is sadly untrue for today's people...
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" If people knew what was really going on, there'd be an uprising and things would change.

from my living test of people (most of my life from high school, ranging from parents, teachers (outside of school and when older today) and getting better as I go saying the same thing here even on Fediverse) people do not even confirm / acknowledge or confront it.

The literally live with it regardless and even say "I know but..." and say things like "got to eat / my children / etc etc" without seeing all is written off and into hell without trying to bend the bad tree of life (banks) back to something straighter even if there is no 1-shot kill.... but people aren't even interested to work on that even though it devalues their whole life and work... even some answered that it's the children that have to deal with it hence the same vicious loop that and other students rightly take into their own hands as honestly the excuse not to even think about this daily is part of bent-ness of life and even supports it but deliberately ignoring such big elephant in room...

TLDR = PEOPLE KNOW - THEY ARE COWARDS / CAN'T FACE TO CHANGE COMFORT AS SUCH A COST AND DEVALUE FACTOR TO EVERYONE USING DEBT TO 'GROW' LIFE (False numbers / false loans).

See my other recent posts or hashtags similar, thanks.

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

Human-orientated “Solving” a problem DOES NOT mean problem is totally gone,... a lot of this is on-going... 

“Solving” a problem DOES NOT mean problem is totally gone,... a lot of this are on-going...

We know that this isn’t how "problem" between people and machines works.

BOTH NEED MAINTENANCE

We’re mostly human after all!

Humans need care / maintenance / peer support (paid and unpaid).

There will always be , , and that needs and itself (people being higher priority than computers).
Right?

These problems will show up in everything we’re building. So help 'build' better people... Right?

This all means we must design solutions with these challenges in mind FOR better people, instead of trying to build perfect solutions that will "end all our problems" but not work on connecting people while improving the humans themselves.

Could call this mental health, upgrading our logic chip, improving the fallacies and fairy tales we were born into and parents hid from us (like money and banks paying for both sides of ). Right?

We just have to commit to the daily work of building the HUMAN ORIENTATED world we want which basic tech can help do but needs human to actually help other humans. Right?

Or just focus on tech... which is made largely by and ?

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

is a lot of erroneous numbers... but you accept it right?

are given to all these people by 🏦 Banks 🏦 who don't have all the money or "principle" amount... that's why making money doesn't solve things totally and start acting like a cancer to society... ⚰️ ⚱️ ✝️

The whole giving of loans is wrong / false power and to / create organised by and .

💲 And people think money is ok because it's linked to food but also because they can't see the cheating enough or accept too easily.

Also because there is no 100% solution they don't bother.. and let it happen and even that "it's needed" because they don't want to work on a solution...

and it's all while trying to pay erroneous and that is never by those that control it# profiting from it and maintaining from ...

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

Deceptive Patterns + Hall of Shame -
from company

deceptive.design/hall-of-shame

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York Times

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Deceptive Patterns (aka 'Dark Patterns')

Hundreds of examples of deceptive patterns used by companies around the world.

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IndiGo manipulating emotions of users when booking flights to opt for travel insurance

Came across this “confirmshaming” dark pattern in the Indigo app when I was booking a flight. That’s when it “present users with opt-out labels that are worded in a derogatory or belittling manner, making users feel bad about choosing not to engage with the offered service”
IndiGo
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NCResq
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November 11, 2023
Google Workspace forcing users to sign up for the expensive free trial before downgrading to cheaper options

TIL: Crazy dark pattern for Google Workspace - it WILL not let me select the cheaper pricing plan when I'm signing up. After some research, I found out you have to signup for the expensive free trial and then search for the option to downgrade to the cheaper pricing plan.
Google
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bozo_eth
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November 10, 2023
Meta pushes user to “consent” to unrestricted use of their data

Meta’s new “consent” wall is scam that undermines the European Court of Justice’s ruling of July. This deceptive design pushes the user to “consent” to unrestricted use of their data. That includes intimate data that Meta obtains by tracking the user on other websites and apps.
Meta
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johnnyryan
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November 10, 2023
Lawdepot tricks users into annual contract

@harrybr I got charged £83.88 after a 7 day trial after clicking this. Wasn't expecting to be charged up front, but missed the PREPAID FOR ONE YEAR caveat
Lawdepot
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domparker
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November 3, 2023
Microsoft displays full screen forces ad pop-ups

Microsoft has started showing a fullscreen pop-up for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III when you boot up an Xbox today
Microsoft
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tomwarren
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November 2, 2023
Mack Club hides the recurring subscription information in the same color as background

Eric July lists the prices to his "Mack Club", but makes the "monthly" recurring label the same color as the background of the site, tricking users into entering a monthly subscription without realizing it.
Mack Club
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dickmasterson
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November 1, 2023
DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip

Orders without tips included ahead of time look less lucrative to drivers, meaning you might be waiting longer.
Doordash
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
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November 1, 2023
MoveHub uses tricky opt-in opt-out for promotional emails

@darkpatterns Classic dark pattern from @movehub
MoveHub
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daviddobrinskiy
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October 30, 2023
IndiGo confuses users to make seat selection purchases through deliberate omission

Mystery over @Indigo 's clever seat-purchase ploy unraveled. While the seat selection is not compulsory, following are the ways the airline has tried to benefit from confusing travellers through deliberate omission. I explain below
IndiGo
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jagritichandra
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October 26, 2023
Porkbun misleads users opting out by not presenting neutral options

Deceptive UX practices at @Porkbun during the approval process for an outgoing domain transfer.
Porkbun
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paulNL
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October 24, 2023
Samsung tricks users to accept all its new terms and conditions including optional ones

Dark pattern of the day. Samsung sent me a notification to accept the new terms and conditions. The form was designed in a way to trick you to accept all the terms, including optional marketing ones... took me ages to find out how I can change my answers...
Samsung
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mariapage
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October 23, 2023
Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood

Twitter is now slowing down traffic on links to the crowdfunding site Patreon, WhatsApp, and at times, Meta’s Messenger app, a Markup analysis confirms.
Twitter
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Jon Keegan and Dan Phiffer
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October 16, 2023
SamCart makes it hard for users to unsubscribe and deactivate

Talk about a unwelcome UX dark pattern @samcartapp pulls when you try to unsubscribe & deactivate. Forces you to watch a video to cancel (and not to mention an addition confirmation step after that). Got to reduce churn, but I hate it from a user satisfaction standpoint.
SamCart
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WillPhillips
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October 13, 2023
Stripe makes it impossible for users to know its monthly costs leading users to pay more

Stripe is a great product but also employs a massive dark pattern. It's almost impossible to know how much you pay monthly to use Stripe. There are bunch of reports you can try to download to analyze fees, but as you turn on their additional services (Revenue Recognition, Sigma, etc) it's basically impossible to see a breakdown of what you're paying. If people easily saw what they paid Stripe monthly (spoiler alert, it's a lot), I bet Stripe would have more competitors.
Stripe
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sm
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October 12, 2023
The Fork misleads users to subscribe to emails with trick wording

The ol' one-two mixed opt-in opt-out dark pattern from the fork . com
The Fork
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pgl
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October 11, 2023
GameStop sued for adding hidden charges during checkout

Yesterday, GameStop was sued in a class action alleging that it sneaks shipping & handling charges into customers' carts at checkout. Consumers say they selected "FREE Shipping" but were charged for it anyway. They seek at least $5M in damages.
GameStop
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RobertFreundLaw
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October 10, 2023
Navi Mutual Funds forces users to accept sharing data to access their funds

Be extremely cautious/avoid investing in Navi Mutual Funds @navifinance @_sachinbansal They have suddenly made it mandatory to share your contacts and location with them to access your funds at all. Can't even withdraw. Complete breach of trust and privacy. Figuring out where to complain but I'm taking my investments away from them for sure. And they say they need it "for best offers" 🙄
Navi Mutual Funds
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shantanugoel
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October 9, 2023
Rotato tricks users to purchase a plan by luring them with free plans

How to lose my trust: - mess with the order of plans and break the left -> right' convention and try to get me for the most expensive option - imply I can start for free while the only option is to purchase a plan.
Rotato
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Goroh_co
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October 8, 2023
X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked

Twitter / X is serving users with a new ad format that can't be blocked or reported the ads aren't even actual X posts & aren't connected to any X accounts. they do not disclose that they are ads it appears the ads are connected to clickbait ad networks
Twitter
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Matt Binder
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October 6, 2023
German Cartel Office published its Google decision on dark patterns and how to fix them

Here is the full draft decision and commitments. Strongly recommend reading and sharing. I’ve long said U.S. enforcers should mirror this check on market power. It’s 30 pages clearly explaining G’s surveillance and dark patterns and how to fix them
Google
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jason_kint
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October 5, 2023
Miku Inc. tricks users into a monthly subscription

My $400 baby monitor has locked previously free features behind a monthly subscription. The app used to send push notifications when the baby woke up. Now I have to pay $10 per month for that privilege
Miku Inc.
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darkpatterns
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October 4, 2023
Facebook and Instagram could charge for ad-free services in EU

A leading campaigner against Meta’s data practices said he would fight the proposals “up and down the courts” if the subscription fees were implemented
Meta
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Dan Milmo and Lisa O'Carroll
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October 3, 2023
Amazon presenting non-neutral options for refund

This is such a dark pattern by Amazon. They make it look like getting a refund to your original form of payment is not an option. Even though it is an option below but is not treated the same as other options.
Amazon
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mohitify
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October 1, 2023
European Consumer Centre Greece Consent Management Platform makes it difficult to reject all cookies

so sick and tired of these dark patterns in consent management platform tools. 'Reject All' does not reject all. You have to click on legitimate interests and 'object all'. That this is on the website of a consumer advice centre is just 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️
European Consumer Centre Greece Consent Management Platform
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PrivacyMatters
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September 30, 2023
Air Canada forces its customers to receive promotional emails

It's a dark pattern to force your users, actually, your customers to agree with receiving promotional emails when they buy from you. There's no way to disagree with it except by not buying plane tickets from @AirCanada . I wonder if it's legal in Canada...
Air Canada
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fharper
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September 28, 2023
Dufresne Group Pays $3.25M CAD for Dark Patterns and Unsupported Pricing

TDG offered consumers products at inflated regular prices and then marketed the products at big discounts giving misleading impression that consumers were savings on those products. The Bureau found that TDG advertised urgent, limited time offers to consumers, including using tactics like countdown timers.
Dufresne Group
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Kelly Harris & Jane Huang
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September 28, 2023
FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power

Amazon’s ongoing pattern of illegal conduct blocks competition, allowing it to wield monopoly power to inflate prices, degrade quality, and stifle innovation
Amazon
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darkpatterns
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September 27, 2023
Adobe tricks users into an annual contract

Guess what the billing period is for this Adobe license, as displayed on this "review your order" screen that appears before you commit? If you guessed "annual", you'd be correct, for some dumb reason. Adobe have really weaponised dark patterns in a truly user-hostile manner.
Adobe
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trawg
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September 27, 2023
Twitter 2FA premium subscription sign up doesn't actually take you into a subscription sign-up journey

This call to action is utterly disingenuous. It looks like you're being invited to add 2FA for security reasons. It's actually an advertisement for Twitter Blue (or whatever they're calling it these days).
Twitter
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darkpatterns
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September 27, 2023
Bundle Hunt adding hidden costs during checkout

@BundleHunt Eh, that's a bit of a sneaky dark pattern 🤔
Bundle Hunt
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iamj7e
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September 27, 2023
Select Blinds fined $10M for fake slashed prices, perpetual discounts and fake countdown timers

Does your ecom site use fake slashed prices, perpetual discounts, and/or countdown timers that reset? Select Blinds did. Now, they're paying $10M to settle a class action lawsuit filed in California.
Select Blinds
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RobertFreundLaw
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September 27, 2023
Lenskart sneaking a convenience fee during membership checkout

Convenience Fee for a membership @peyushbansal @Lenskart_com I would probably buy your membership at 49. Why do you have to switch and bait? I don’t care how sophisticated your app is, after this, you’ll be one of those companies that does scammy shit, for me at least.
Lenskart
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kalibuild
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September 27, 2023
Kayak automatically re-enables push notification settings after user disables it

Wow @kayak going hard on the Dark Patterns when I try to disable some push notifications and a magical ghost just pops them back on 👻
Kayak
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JesseSchoberg
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September 26, 2023
Blinkit using disguised advertisements by using same copy as system functions

IMO push notifications should not have the same copy as system functions. I also had not ordered anything. I saw this and thought someone was trying to call me and then realised it’s just a random notification.
Blinkit
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NCResq
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September 25, 2023
ChatGPT forces users to compromise on privacy by linking it to reduced functionality

Dark patterns are another issue. By default, ChatGPT users allow OpenAI to use their data for model training, exposing them to memorization risks. The opt-out interfaces unnecessarily link privacy with reduced functionality, and the more flexible control is hard to find and use.
ChatGPT
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tianshi_li
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September 25, 2023
Swiggy adding hidden costs during food order checkout

Holy moly. This is actual fraud and I found that @Swiggy is doing this even for me! Here's my last order and it adds up to 255.60. But they charge 259? This stinks. It can't be some random error, it seems to be on purpose to add rs. 3 extra. What's going on?
Swiggy
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deepakshenoy
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September 24, 2023
Facebook using trick working to target ads based on user activity

"Use this activity" is an unusual choice of words, huh. (screenshot from @facebook yesterday)
Facebook
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darkpatterns
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September 23, 2023
Fotor uses double negatives confusing users to opt-out of marketing advertisements

@darkpatterns this double-negative is a classic by now, thx @fotor_com
Fotor
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tuexss
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September 22, 2023
How Mastercard sells its ‘gold mine’ of transaction data

Mastercard knows where you shop, on what day, and how much you spend - and it sells that data widely to third parties like data brokers and advertisers. Our new investigation out today
Mastercard
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R.J. Cross
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September 20, 2023
Apollo makes its hard to cancel it's subscription by redirecting it to an unresponsive chatbot

Big time dark pattern by @MeetApollo when trying to cancel on their monthly self-serve plan. Cancel Plan button triggers a bot chat in order to cancel and then they don't respond 😑 @darkpatterns
Apollo
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thedbeaudoin
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September 19, 2023
LearnDesk makes it hard for user to cancel account for the past 3 years

It doesn't get more "sludge" than LearnDesk. Trying to cancel my account for the past 3 years. Now I finally get these instructions with a screen shot. Well, the "delete account" button does not exist on my profile.
LearnDesk
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c_a_gravert
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September 18, 2023
Twitter not labeling the advertisements attracting liability for non-disclosure

Twitter not marking ads as ads any more. I was wondering why this craptastic tweet was showing up in my TL. (It was an ad, just not marked as such)
Twitter
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RobertFreundLaw
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September 17, 2023
Google to pay $93m in settlement over deceptive location tracking

Tech giant ‘continued to collect and store a user’s location data’ even if users turned off their location history, according to suit
Google
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Johana Bhuiyan
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September 15, 2023
Irish Data Protection Commission announces €345 million fine of TikTok

TikTok fined €345 million and ordered to become legally compliant within 3 months. “The fine relates to non-private settings, lack of transparency and use of dark patterns.” 🙌
Tiktok
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darkpatterns
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September 15, 2023
Adobe makes it hard for users to cancel its subscription

Every year, Adobe sends me an email notifying me that they will increase the price of Creative Cloud from €29,99 to €52,06 per month (+44%!). And every year, I take the same steps to keep my old price: I pretend that I want to cancel my plan, stating it's "too expensive," and in the end, they offer a "special deal" for €29,99 for another full year.
Adobe
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bytebln
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September 15, 2023
Notion's subscription plan set to yearly instead of monthly without consent of users

What happens when a genius PM & UX designer work together at Notion? 👇 Backstory, I got $910 credits from Stripe Atlas to try out Notion. Cool, who doesn't like free credits! Finally, I used up all the credits and got charged $90. So I decided the party was over, let's downgrade the plan to free. But for some odd reason, the account is set to yearly, instead of monthly without my consent (Notion manually approves and applies the credit), and once I used up my credits. BOOOOM! My next invoice is set for Feb 2024 for a whopping $2,150.
Notion
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MrNick_Buzz
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September 15, 2023
Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links—Check for Yourself

The MarkUp has built a tool to see how much Twitter is throttling links to various sites. Conclusion - it’s doing it to all it’s competitors.
Twitter
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Jon Keegan, Dan Phiffer and Joel Eastwood
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September 15, 2023
Gatwick Airport website uses disguised advertisement to sign users up to a third-party monthly subscription

"By clicking above, you can join our partner programme for 15 pounds/month and claim your reward." This dialog is styled to look like part of the first party payment process, but in fact it's an advertisement for completesavings.co.uk.
Gatwick Airport
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darkpatterns
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September 13, 2023
Yoga Insurance obstructs users by making it hard to cancel their automatic renewal

This is @InsuranceYoga . You see this after you request to cancel automatic renewal. You're also required to enter a cancellation reason in a free text field. Viewing the discount takes you out of the cancellation journey - you have to start again if unhappy with the discount.
Yoga Insurance
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darkpatterns
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September 11, 2023
Order bars Intuit from engaging in deceptive practices in the future

Administrative Law Judge Issues Initial Decision in FTC’s Case Against Intuit Inc.
Intuit
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FTC
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September 8, 2023
Bluebird Group forces users to turn on OS notifications to use the app

You can't use @Bluebirdgroup app unless you turn on OS notifications.
Bluebird Group
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darkpatterns
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September 7, 2023
Programiz PRO disables unsubscribe page to prevent users from unsubscribing

@Programiz disabled the input and button on the unsubscribe page to prevent users from unsubscribing!? check it out at this link: programiz.pro/unsubscribe @darkpatterns
Programiz PRO
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khajimatov
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September 5, 2023
JPMorgan Chase Seeks to Prohibit Card Customers From Suing

Forced arbitration clauses are a fancy way for companies to force customers to waive their right to go to court when they’re cheated. And @JPMorgan @Chase just snuck them back into the fine print of their credit cards.
JPMorgan Chase
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walid
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September 1, 2023
JP Morgan Chase Forces customers to sign arbitration clauses to sign in

So @JPMorgan @Chase is forcing me into forced arbitration to sign into my account online. Anybody else seeing that?
JPMorgan Chase
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walid
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September 1, 2023
Users automatically enrolled in Amazon Prime subscription while choosing 'continue with Amazon Prime' delivery

I can't believe this dark pattern is still being used by @Amazon . If you're quickly clicking it looks like this button provides two options - continuing with Amazon Prime or continuing with normal delivery. If you do click this button by accident, you'll be automatically subscribed to Amazon Prime. There is no easy way to undo the subscription. So gross.
Amazon
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cameronsmith
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August 22, 2023
Peloton making users re-setup basic functionality to change their membership

Pausing your @onepeloton membership is really made to be a painful experience. Making you re-setup the bike to use basic functionality like you just formatted it. Plus the dark patterns just to change your membership.
Peloton
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chrislepensky
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August 22, 2023
The Sun (EU) uses a deceptive UI in its cookie dialog

Dark patterns in privacy. There are at least 3 problems with this EU-based cookie banner, can you spot them?
The Sun
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LuizaJarovsky
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August 22, 2023
Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron

‘This process is annoying enough the first time, but at some point down the line, you'll also be offered […] the "second chance out-of-box experience," , which will try to get you to do all of this stuff again if you skipped some of it the first time.’
Microsoft
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Andrew Cunningham
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August 22, 2023
Facebook requires group admins to manually remove every member from the group to delete a Facebook Group

Just found out that if you want to delete a Facebook Group you're in charge of, you have to manually remove every member one-by-one until you're the last one left, and then you have the option to remove/delete it. This is insanely asinine. 😠
Facebook
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PatFlynn
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August 21, 2023
Figma automatically charged its users when given file permissions

just got hit with my first surprise @figma billing where it added two editors to my bill and charged automatically when all I did was give them file permissions on one file. wild to me how a company who does so much good for the community still hasn’t fixed this dark pattern
Figma
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kyleturman
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August 19, 2023
YouTube accused of aiming ads at kids after promising it wouldn't do that

Adalytics alleges that YouTube appears to set long-lasting cookies specifically for users who are watching videos labeled "for kids." It also suggested that serves “targeted ads on YouTube videos that are clearly labeled as 'for kids.'"
Youtube
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Thomas Claburn
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August 18, 2023
Go on a date with a reporter to cancel your Wall Street Journal subscription

Wall Street Journal requires it users to go on a date with a reporter to cancel its subscription
Wall Street Journal
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soren_iverson
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August 18, 2023
Skype does not allow users a granular control of notifications

Skype is sending this notification once per day. For a communications app to abuse notifications in this way is unconscionable. Of course I can’t turn them off. I just have to endure the abuse. Absolute shame on Skype and Microsoft.
Skype
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benthompson
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August 18, 2023
Ekster held liable for using fake reference prices to run sales

Here's yet another class action about fake "sale" prices. Remember: using fake reference prices to run sales is illegal under the FTC Act and California's laws. This time, ecommerce wallet brand Ekster is in the crosshairs:
Ekster
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RobertFreundLaw
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August 17, 2023
Cancelling Amazon Prime: An interactive, behavioural remedy

Coglode Cures - Interactive Behavioural Remedies
Amazon
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Coglode - Cookbook
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August 17, 2023
Spaceship allowed upgrading of account but not downgrading

disappointed by the dark patterns I've encountered over at @spaceship ! pretty weak that you built the ability to upgrade your account but not downgrade.
Spaceship
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felixthehat
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August 17, 2023
YouTube Will Display a Blank Home Feed if Your Watch History Is Turned Off

You can choose to turn on your watch history to get recommended videos, or stick with a simpler home page.
Youtube
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Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
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August 9, 2023
Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August

Norway's data privacy watchdog has fined Meta $6.8 million for violating users' privacy by using their personal data to target ads as it failed to get users' consent to use data about their interests to serve them personalized ads.
Meta
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Betsy Reed
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August 7, 2023
Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out

Users agree to allow Zoom to access and use their Service Generated Data for various purposes, including product development, marketing, analytics, and improving their services, in accordance with applicable laws and this Agreement.
Zoom
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darkpatterns
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August 6, 2023
HP cover's USB port to push people into wireless printing

Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker. Is covering a printer’s USB port with a sticker to push people into wireless printing the worst thing HP does with its hardware? Not remotely.
HP
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Adi Robertson
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August 4, 2023
WeBuyAnyPhone pressurizes users with a fake countdown and a free trial to trap in a recurring subscription

A double whammy of deceptive patterns from webuyanyphone.com. First, a countdown timer pressuring you to "secure this value" by checking out quickly. Second, a £5 bonus if you sign up for a "free trial" of McAfee, which sets up a recurring subscription. cc: @darkpatterns
WeBuyAnyPhone
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DavidOfYork
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August 4, 2023
Scribd highlights "Keep Subscription" option over "Cancellation" tricking users

This is ridiculous and I hate when companies throw dark patterns at their users to try and trick them into staying subscribed to apps. Very uncool, @Scribd
Scribd
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nicheplays
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August 3, 2023
TheAthletic makes it hard to cancel subscription by highlighting other options

Enough with the BS dark patterns! @TheAthletic cc: @darkpatterns
The Athletic
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thedbeaudoin
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August 3, 2023
Twitter changes its 'Ad' icon placement to make it difficult to scan and easier to be scammed

The 'Ad' icon placement and wording has changed on Twitter. Because your eye usually automatically scans to the place where it used to be, it's easier to get scammed at the moment by ads like this. Worth being a bit more careful than usual.
Twitter
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danbarker
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August 3, 2023
British Airways deploys settings ignoring all user input with a default to the most privacy invading configuration

3/n Next I dealt with @British_Airways deceptive design pattern approach to pushing surveillance cookies (misleading emphasis) cc @darkpatterns
British Airways
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cpltalk
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August 3, 2023
Figma does not provide any unsubscribing option to its users

I thought the unsubscribe button might have been black on black but… there is literally none! @figma @darkpatterns
Figma
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mthvrs
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August 3, 2023
Comcast and Xfinity makes cancelling service harder by making users chat with agents and bots

Hei, @comcast / @Xfinity can we stop with the dark patterns? I just want to cancel service, I don't care to chat with your agents and your bot is just a loop. Just stop the service already.
Comcast
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Xfinity
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mihaimaruseac
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August 2, 2023
Daily Express forces users into accepting cookies by bundling them together

1/Hello @Daily_Express I notice you're using dark patterns in a dire 'cookie' notice. (a) Defaulted to 'I accept' which would trigger NINE HUNDRED & TEN third party 'partners (b) Clicking 'More options' takes you to window showing a number of purposes set to 'OFF' & a choice of
Daily Express
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PrivacyMatters
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August 2, 2023
Thrive with KP uses tricky legal language to threaten people to give their data

This is some creepy dark pattern bullshit from @kpthrive . They're using the legally required language to threaten people into allowing them to profit of health data sales and sharing by making it seem as though you are somehow giving up HIPAA protections in order to protect data
Thrive with KP
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spjika
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August 1, 2023
Humble Bundle makes it hard to cancel subscription through tricky language and greyed out options

Trying to skip a month of @humble Choice is a cacophony of @darkpatterns . Too many steps, alternating button colors to trick you into clicking the wrong thing, inconsistent language, etc.
Humble Bundle
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ItsCovarr
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August 1, 2023
Crunchyroll replaces the cancel button with a "keep subscription" button making it hard to opt out

new dark pattern dropped. Cant cancel your @Crunchyroll account if you replace the cancel button with a "keep subscription" button! X should do this, seems effective.
Crunchyroll
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BritonBaker
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July 31, 2023
Specscart uses manual check boxing as a means to unsubscribe from email preferences

@darkpatterns Nonsensical unsubscribe button and check boxes. Am I unsubscribing by checking or subscribing? (Specscart)
Specscart
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lenainbros
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July 29, 2023
Dominos cash back reward tricked into joining partner programme for 15 pounds/month

We should boycott companies like @Dominos_UK that use these kinds of predatory schemes to try and trick people into subscriptions they don't need. Frankly this should be illegal. Especially the dark pattern that makes it look at a glance like it's part of the order process.
Dominos
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PhonicUK
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July 28, 2023
FTC’s Secures $18.5 Million Settlement With Publishers Clearing House for Alleged Dark Pattern Sweepstakes Tactics

. @PerkinsCoieLLP shares details of the $18.5M settlement Publishers Clearing House reached w/ @FTC following allegations of deceptive practices, such as the use of patterns to encourage entries and purchases.
Publishers Clearing House
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Amanda Beane, Wonji Kerper & Nathan Kosnoff
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July 25, 2023
Shutterstock deploys recurring annual plans or termination with massive penalty

. @Shutterstock is seriously the worst. I didn’t even know I signed up for an annual sub the way they do dark patterns in their checkout, now they try to hold you hostage by paying $60 to cancel? I haven’t used this in 4 months you got way more than your $60. Awful service.
Shutterstock
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lissijean
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July 24, 2023
Patient Company using trick wording to continue collecting data

6/ It really is important to understand that if a person selects 'More Options' then 'Reject All', then 'Save & Exit', those action do NOT disable the 'Legitimate Interest' purposes. A person would need to select 'Legitimate Interest' then select 'OBJECT ALL' & 'Save & Exit'
Patient
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PrivacyMatters
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July 19, 2023
MasterClass greys out option to reject cookies titled "Edit cookie preferences"

@darkpatterns get a load of this slimy shit
MasterClass
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ivanbelcic
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July 19, 2023
Meta uses surveillance based advertising

The Norwegian data protection authority is issuing a ban on Meta's use of surveillance-based advertising. Happy to see some actual enforcement of the GDPR!
Meta
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airavn
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July 17, 2023
A review of the manipulative design tactics used by Amazon to mislead consumers and keep them enrolled in Prime, according to the FTC

A few weeks ago, the FTC accused Amazon of using misleading design features to prevent consumers from cancelling their Prime subscriptions. Let’s break down some of the “dark patterns” the FTC identified:
Amazon
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TTP_updates
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July 10, 2023
The ‘Threads’ App is FILLED With Deceptive Dark Design Patterns – We Spotted More Than TEN - Yanko Design

The Threads app almost immediately displayed a whole bunch of dark patterns with its user interface. We spotted at least 11 of them, and we’re sure there are a lot more to come. Here are some highly evident dark tricks the Threads app is using to ensure you stay on the platform as long as you possibly can… and supply Meta with even more data than before.
Instagram
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Sarang Sheth
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July 7, 2023
Ultra Fast Keto Boost using fake scarcity and urgency to falsely urge customers to act quickly

Here's an example of how a false advertising claim about "limited supply" representations can survive a pleadings challenge: The makers of "Ultra Fast Keto Boost" ran ads claiming a "limited supply" and urging customers to act quickly.
Ultra Fast Keto Boost
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RobertFreundLaw
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July 7, 2023
Users are outraged and 'trapped' after realizing you can't delete Meta's new Threads app without deleting Instagram too

Apparently you can't delete threads without deleting Instagram. A new form of sludge! @jiayingzhao @R_Thaler @katy_milkman @ideas42 @CassSunstein @stuart_mmills @UofT_BEAR @avicgoldfarb @StephaneCoteTO
Instagram
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Charissa Cheong
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July 6, 2023
Adobe enrolls users into the subscription model using free trial

Dark pattern from @adobe . There’s no option to skip the trial and just use the free version, so the burden is on the user to remember to cancel.
Adobe
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MikeCalcagno
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July 5, 2023
Ubiquiti Inc application mandates creating an account to use while not so when accessed via the browser

Nice "dark pattern" there, @Ubiquiti . In the 'app', i MUST create a cloud account. But if I connect to the console via the browser, I can skip that step.
Ubiquiti
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leyrer
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July 5, 2023
SiriusXM Canada makes canceling subscription hard

It took over a half an hour of wasted time on the phone with @siriusxmcanada to cancel the other day. Called because of I must have said "please just cancel my account" at least 50 times. Ridiculous.
SiriusXM Canada
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fastpuppy
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July 5, 2023
Foot Locker creates false sense of urgency stating limited stock for its products

A lawsuit filed yesterday against Foot Locker accuses the brand of using a "false urgency" dark pattern—claiming items are running out of stock, when they aren't:
Foot Locker
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RobertFreundLaw
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July 4, 2023
Microsoft Edge used as default for links from Outlook app

If you have a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription, browser links from the Outlook app will open in Microsoft Edge by default”
Microsoft
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darkpatterns
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June 27, 2023
Publishers Clearing House to refund customers $18.5 million in FTC settlement for ‘deceptive’ practices

This is our second dark pattern lawsuit over the last week,” Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said of the PCH lawsuit in a written statement. “Firms that continue to deploy deceptive design techniques are on notice.
Publishers Clearing House
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Greg Iacurci
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June 26, 2023
Sydney Morning Herald requires users to call for canceling their subscriptions

Classic @darkpatterns from @smh this should be illegal. Or, they can ask you to sign up over the phone too!
Sydney Morning Herald
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JoelDignam
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June 22, 2023
FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process

Complaint PDF here:
ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/p
"Amazon used an internal term called “Iliad” to describe the process, referencing Homer’s epic poem about the Trojan War"
Amazon
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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

Creating bad work for ourselves... (the standard way of life when dependent on money so much) 

❓ If you are employed to find problems as a job (like police person or solver) then what happens when there are no problems to solve or much less?...

When people solve things and bad behaviour is trained out or themselves disappear? What of your job and work if constantly there isn't much to do? The job or society doesn't expect or provide for this veru well when everything is tied to needing money as the priority for what in many cases shouldn't be the most important thing individually or as a chain / pyramid...

✅ 1 common :
CREATE yourself 'work' and the problems (made usually from other people who are not doing anything terrible by reclassifying it or re-labelling people).

This is essentially what a lot of 'legal' and 'illegal' is even if it has some reasoning...

Make existing things more problematic even if they were not really a problem... ever!

The priority is MORE to continue to exist, to continue to get money (by almost any means) rather than actually do useful things in life. Basically this is what Governments often do for themselves as a template to stay in power or keep leverage...

To continue 'working' means 'making work / making problems and leaving things 'a bit broken' can continue justification to keep 'working' and the continued dependency etc to exist...

Good people essentially starve and put themselves out of work by solving it so well or by training all others so that everyone can almost to other people's work... needing less 'jobs' overall and more mentality / .

i.e. 'Work' templates often don't expect you to finish things or solve them as a job very gently, or expect that things change and simply may not be needed in the same way all the time but change themself into something else...

Less police officers or creating more problems? can be 'both bad' perhaps as options and bad perspective from the initial way of looking at 'this or that' thing because they are skewed by the need for money MOSTLY (more than real progress or simply 'no progress is needed - take a break! ').

Because the leverage is so hard on people living *on* money - the problems are tied to dependency for one to keep going! We just 'need' to keep digging even though we don't need to and it doesn't matter where we go sometimes/

Humanity (People inside humanity) need to do other things sometimes but are systematically kept doing the same mono-work and blinkered... even though no 1 thing is needed forever or has less and less meaning when repeated so many times in a row.

There is no soft way to allow space and time for people to transition or find other things once there is too many people doing 1 thing and even starting creating bad work... (too many chefs etc)...

What an unnecessary way of doing a lot of things... (too many roads for example but good money in it)

@garyackerman Too many

CREATING BAD WORK IS BAD ALSO AND OFTEN NOT NEEDED!

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

Banks are much like a bad doctor... extracting our blood 

Banks are sucking all parts of people's work (blood, sweat and tears) which converted from job life into money working for banks like a work-horse in order to get even more profit (banks re - your savings).

It's like keeping patients (or clients) "just-about" alive like bad doctors while all the people in the chain reap / rape from the customer barely leaving them living at the end of the process.

and make it like having a loan is asking permission to live.

From people's body it's pure extraction. People and their limbs also connected top the eco-systems (outside of human body but still part of us) which all get sucked dry too as a result of doing thew work for each

And people even have to pay on top for killing themselves and / or just to live themselves!

That is a big

If you really can't see or imagine more than this, then I think that is close to accepting it almost all.

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

Would you Buy $19.99 for $20.00 !? (Money / Banks) 

Would you Buy $19.99 for $20.00 !?

yewtu.be/watch?v=hJ9yBgTp9UQ&t

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Would you pay for ?
(because that's what the system is making people do!
====================

YES - because you probably are and if you accept the banking system then OTHER PEOPLE PAY for money itself ?

ISN'T THAT CRAZY ?

Imagine people PAY for money itself ?

- paying for loan
- pays fees. % etc...

So you too are reducing the worth of money...

Paying to get loan or paying slowly 10,000 for 100K is still making it it worth 90K overall (even though it will say 100, it's worth is 90).

I understand there is all this tomfoolery in logic that "you are investing" ...in a house (also getting more expensive)... or in a company... but while loans dilute the money "market" everyone is losing and devaluing the money itself !

This is a comedy clip video example of what I mean just literally a second or two...

"Buy $19.99 for $20.00" !

yewtu.be/watch?v=hJ9yBgTp9UQ&t

Do you see it possible to improve people more than devalue money between us ?

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

Debt = People's Time (Debt Slavery) 

Bank makes debt
People have to pay more after or a fee (effectively paying for money which is crazy and means a fee reduces the value of money.)

As a main way of life debt on debt creating a fake bubble...

More Debt = More "I DON'T HAVE TIME" (because I have debts to pay).

If you can't go in life without debt, then " debt slavery " is likely.


(have to keep working)

Banks are also responsible for tired people... because they team up with Government and literally suck the energy out of people while banks create negative numbers (loans / debt many time more than people really have which creates a fake bubble of confidence when that money shouldn't have existed without it being someone's saving or some other form of concrete "something" etc)

empty people using - that's why every country uses the as

Debt = ⌚ People's Time (Debt Slavery)

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

Democracy NEVER EXISTED ! ! (Democracy vs. Power / Military) 

Democracy NEVER EXISTED !
(Democracy vs. Military)

It's perhaps a a word for smaller groups but for in power (military based) it's hard to imagine something more than our historical based of Military, and just *a bit* of Democracy (giving way basically) by others...

So the language here is like a Dictionary word for what we are inside the context as Military / Arms-based world....

We could say Democracy could be close to what we've done or temporary but long term has always been about Power / Empire first... so this post I hope puts that in order... everything else is below power unless it gains more power (money, centralisation, position, greed etc)

We might like to choose to name it Democracy but I believe the context has always over-ruled from hand-to-hand combat to live / fight to bank power ( to live / fight)... somewhat words like Democracy can be misleading and even inappropriate for what I see as quite impossible as a definition since it's more about people backing down / giving way / forced / manipulated / tricked / cheated etc... never really talking it out in mass and even countries pretending it's democracy but never caring just as before or allowing the individuals to really have a say.

It's more, "here are the 'options' we give you" so "your choice is what we have curated for you, pick"
Not the same as Democracy and making sure truth justice etc wins more than "who has most money for election" and nobody from Government even allowed to care by making sure jobs are specific and say in their lane. It's all very well defined - never about changing much the normal and "standard" they want keep for themselves.

Reality = State representing Public as Democracy

unless it's = type of ETC

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

GRAND THEFT LIFE #Monopoly board ! Everyone can play this and call it "business" ! 

"GRAND THEFT LIFE" is my own thought of tagline and perspective of life itself.

My edited + Command & Conquer + together

as ... more art in video here of more pleasant kind:
invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=0


= + #CommandandConquer between us
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= for using (and vice versa)

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag #️⃣

#Currency = #War (extraction / cheating people) using #Banks for for #Government (and vice versa) #Monopoly #Fascism 

= (extraction / cheating people) using for for (and vice versa)

and = our energy taken through debt / negative balances / loans

"GRAND THEFT LIFE"
of

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= + between us + Command & Conquer +

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= ( ) Currency = War / cheating / extracting people of their energy / work

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