• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    I’ve been a software developer for nearly 25 years now, and I can tell you this.

    No cunt reads anything.

    Something pops up over the top of what they want, they’ll click OK.

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      11 months ago

      With dark patterns you can “guide” the user to click a particular button, for example by having “accept” in a large, bright stand out colored button, and the “reject” button in a low contrast, small or disabled looking button.

      This will not prevent people from clicking reject, but it shifts the percentage of people clicking accept vs reject in the websites favor.

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      11 months ago

      I am just a guy who knows shit about computers and family knows it.

      The amount of stuff I had to remove after people next next next’d an adware installation agreement during installing other stuff…

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      11 months ago

      Users not reading shit I can understand but it makes my blood boil when it your own bloody colleagues.