A presentation by Harry Brignull on Dark Patterns. Includes examples from Apple, Post-office.co.uk, Royal Mail, Santander, Quora, Twitter, The Ladders, JustFab, Next.co.uk and M&S.
iPhone users are nagged to sign up to Apple Pay
Upgraded to iOS 14. Apple says "setup hey Siri" and has "setup later in settings" under it in small text Tap that, then continue with normal Siri Giant red 1 on settings Have to repeat above Also have to reenable dictation on my keyboard.
There is no option to select no, there are only options to “try now” or “later.”
OSX warns its user that disk space is almost full and that they should optimize their storage space. When the user chooses to optimize storage, it pushes the use of iCloud on the user.
When confirming preferences to 'Allow Apps to Request to Track', the text is confusing and does not make it clear whether apps are not allowed to track the user, or won’t have to ask before tracking them.
"The wildest part is that this approach by Apple is actually a concession to appease various antitrust investigations around the world. Instead of rejecting Netflix’s app or forcing them to give Apple 30% at least now Apple just scares users. How gracious."
"European Commission fines Apple over 1.8 billion over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers The investigation found that "Apple bans music streaming app developers from fully informing iOS users" about alternative and cheaper services."
"Spotify, Epic Games and others pen letter to EC, claiming Apple has made a mockery of the DMA"
"Great story - How the classic Apple Mac sound 'Sosumi' is derived from the phrase "so, sue me!" because of a long running court battle with Apple Corps, the record label."