<story><title>Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video]</title><url>http://darkpatterns.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artursapek</author><text>Software updates are the rare case where I can forgive it. It&amp;#x27;s annoying to have clients actively resisting updates, especially security updates.</text></item><item><author>cm2187</author><text>And even Apple is doing it. You you want to update your iphone now or tonight?</text></item><item><author>artursapek</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a tumblr for that! They call it &amp;quot;confirm shaming&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;confirmshaming.tumblr.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;confirmshaming.tumblr.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And yeah, it&amp;#x27;s UX cancer.</text></item><item><author>cle</author><text>One pattern that I consider &amp;quot;dark&amp;quot;, but don&amp;#x27;t see in this list, is using loaded options on a dialog box.  One that I often see in apps is like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Rate our app!  
    &amp;lt;OK&amp;gt; &amp;lt;Not Yet&amp;gt;  
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Those really get under my skin because the developer is clearly trying to play a psychological trick on me, but it&amp;#x27;s so brazen and obvious that it just pisses me off.  And bigger companies do it too (e.g. Google).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wernercd</author><text>Security update? 9.3.4 =&amp;gt; 9.3.5? That&amp;#x27;s an update&lt;p&gt;9.3.5 =&amp;gt; 10.0 is not a &amp;quot;security update&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Constant nagware until you update is asinine. &amp;quot;Update Now or Later?&amp;quot;... f&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;* you, I don&amp;#x27;t like what I see in 10... but I&amp;#x27;m stuck with dancing around daily fucking warnings.&lt;p&gt;I swear... I&amp;#x27;m not bitter :) I also won&amp;#x27;t buy another iPhone.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video]</title><url>http://darkpatterns.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artursapek</author><text>Software updates are the rare case where I can forgive it. It&amp;#x27;s annoying to have clients actively resisting updates, especially security updates.</text></item><item><author>cm2187</author><text>And even Apple is doing it. You you want to update your iphone now or tonight?</text></item><item><author>artursapek</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a tumblr for that! They call it &amp;quot;confirm shaming&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;confirmshaming.tumblr.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;confirmshaming.tumblr.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And yeah, it&amp;#x27;s UX cancer.</text></item><item><author>cle</author><text>One pattern that I consider &amp;quot;dark&amp;quot;, but don&amp;#x27;t see in this list, is using loaded options on a dialog box.  One that I often see in apps is like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Rate our app!  
    &amp;lt;OK&amp;gt; &amp;lt;Not Yet&amp;gt;  
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Those really get under my skin because the developer is clearly trying to play a psychological trick on me, but it&amp;#x27;s so brazen and obvious that it just pisses me off.  And bigger companies do it too (e.g. Google).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>If it was only about the security update. But in the case of iOS it is not. It&amp;#x27;s is the opportunity to start the nagging all over again. Please start using iCloud. Let&amp;#x27;s use Apple Pay now. Let&amp;#x27;s use Apple Music.&lt;p&gt;On every single minor &amp;quot;security&amp;quot; update...</text></comment>