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.
Twitter gives a “time out” to users that have been deemed “abusive” or “bullies”. The time out doesn’t disable their account, it only makes their posts limited to be seen by their followers during the time limit.
Twitter wanted users to discover their new feature “discover”, so they put it in the location where notifications usually is, so that people would naturally click on the old spot due to muscle memory and discover the new feature.
Social media platforms repeatedly use so-called dark patterns to nudge you toward giving away more of your data.
"The company should know by now, based on the dozens of previous rejections: I'm not interested!"
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 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)
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.
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 / 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 is now slowing down traffic on links to the crowdfunding site Patreon, WhatsApp, and at times, Meta’s Messenger app, a Markup analysis confirms.
"Is it possible to wriggle around advertising laws and regs like this: 1. Allow advertisers to run ads containing false information 2. Present a footnote under these ads saying the information presented is not true? 3. Profit from the ad revenue"
""The investigation into 'deceptive design' concerns the use of 'blue check' marks, which are now only available to those who pay. Before Musk, blue ticks were given by Twitter to verified users in the public eye, including ministers and celebrities.""
"Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood The Markup"
"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)."
"Elon Musks X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes The site formerly known as Twitter added a five-second delay when a user clicked on a shortened link to the New York Times, Facebook and other sites Musk commonly attacks."
X recently introduced a new setting that allows them to use the content you posts to train their AI, Grok. However, instead of informing users or asking for their explicit consent, X set this setting to "yes" for everyone without any notice. This is a textbook example of the dark pattern known as "preselection".