It’s been a while since I last downloaded anaconda. But I remember when clicking on the download page, it would show the usual “choose your OS > download binary” (eg this archived version in 2019).
Recently I helped someone else set it up and it showed a form to put on email, with smaller gray text near the bottom of the form about skipping it.
Does this count as a dark pattern?
For those dark pattern email boxes I like entering things like admin@[website that’s serving a dark pattern mailbox] or marketing@website because 50% of the time it just gives me whatever without any trouble and the other 50% of the time I clear cookies and consider if I really need whatever they’re gating behind harvesting my email…
This is such a great idea lol
That is a great alternative to sfgdgsgshajdjajshags@gmail.com, I’ll also feel less bad about accidentally hitting a real email.
Yes. This is a dark pattern.
They hit two dark patterns out of a possible seven.
I should make a browser plug-in that finds dark patterns and reverses them.
