Curious website that explains how pages want to deceive you with examples (save to use and not taken very seriously)
Discord. The “Gift nitro” button is placed where in a previous version the “upload file” button was
Additionally the window once opened, can’t be closed with the ESC key unlike other windows.
Finally you had to decline twice before that was changed to only be once.
Overall a very disgusting move on what was supposed to be a user friendly program
A big one is when an advert is made to look and feel like organic content. The “Ad” flag (legally required) is in faint small font like someone forced them to have it there.
That first one… It makes me laugh. It has never affected me when companies use derogatory or belittling language. I decline them with a smile on my face but I can see how it might work on others.
I really don’t understand why companies use these tactics. Makes me instantly hate them and leave their website/cancel purchase processes etc. never to return again unless it’s absolutely completely unavoidable. Rather pay a bit more than dealing with scummy/scammy businesses.
