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Words With Friends 2 is a showcase of dark patterns:

- Animated pop-up ads where the close button is not in a consistent place, to trick you into clicking on something.

- All-or-nothing notifications, so you can't turn on "it's your turn" and leave off "are you interested in buying candy-colored letter themes? how about now? HOW ABOUT NOW, MOTHER&*#$ER?".

- Games you haven't accepted are lumped in with games you're currently playing, both marked "it's your turn".

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@peterdrake I was just thinking about how easy it would be to make a really fun scrabble phone game by throwing out all that bullshit and adding a bunch of user-optional fun features

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