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[OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability

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  [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-04-15 16:57 -0500
    Re: [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-16 11:10 +0000
      Re: [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-04-16 07:04 -0500
        Re: [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-16 13:44 +0000
          Re: [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-16 17:52 +0000
          Re: [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-17 09:51 +0000

#2399 — [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability

Slightly OT, but an interesting blog about the dirty tricks web designers use to 
trick users into buying more than they intended. 


> Dark patterns are deliberate acts of manipulative design whose intent is to push 
> users toward choices that harm their interests. In my case, I was unable to cancel 
> my subscription, and they extracted some money that should have been mine. If it 
> had happened on the street, it would be a crime. 


The author has a catalogue of examples at http://darkpatterns.org/ 

http://pando.com/2014/04/15/dark-patterns-the-crimes-and-misdemeanors-of-design/ 

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#2402

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:57:50 -0500
"tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> wrote:

> The author has a catalogue of examples at http://darkpatterns.org/  
> http://pando.com/2014/04/15/dark-patterns-the-crimes-and-misdemeanors-of-design/ 

This looks great, but I'm absolutely unable to get to the Pando website
- not the first time I've had trouble with them.  Is anyone else having
trouble?  Is their site down, crushed with the mass of hundreds of
thousands of comp.miscers DOSing their system?

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#2406

> I'm absolutely unable to get to the Pando website 

Works for me. Maybe your IP or country is blocked? Does it work through a proxy? 
http://hidemyass.com/ 

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#2407

On 2014-04-16, tdk <forum.tdk@squte.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm absolutely unable to get to the Pando website 
>
> Works for me. Maybe your IP or country is blocked? Does it work
> through a proxy?  http://hidemyass.com/ 
>

I'll give it a try.  Blocking IP addresses by geographical region is the
stupidest idea ever for most stuff.  From here in Senegal I can't even
get onto the Netflix webpage for example.  So much for buying mom and
dad a subscription for Xmas.  F.U. Netflix! 

That's the best name ever for a VPN provider, by the way.

I'm also looking at flashrouters.com (I think that's the URL).  They
sell routers with opensource VPN software on it so I can extend a VPN
connection to the rest of my household.

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#2411

On 2014-04-16, RS Wood wrote:
> On 2014-04-16, tdk <forum.tdk@squte.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm absolutely unable to get to the Pando website 
>>
>> Works for me. Maybe your IP or country is blocked? Does it work
>> through a proxy?  http://hidemyass.com/ 
>>
>
> I'll give it a try.  Blocking IP addresses by geographical region is the
> stupidest idea ever for most stuff.  From here in Senegal I can't even
> get onto the Netflix webpage for example.  So much for buying mom and
> dad a subscription for Xmas.  F.U. Netflix! 
>
> That's the best name ever for a VPN provider, by the way.

+1

> I'm also looking at flashrouters.com (I think that's the URL).  They
> sell routers with opensource VPN software on it so I can extend a VPN
> connection to the rest of my household.

It looks like they just flash open source firmware and resell them.
Why not do it yourself?  Flashing a router's firmware takes < 10
minutes.

I use DD-WRT everywhere, and love it.  It gives you all the
functionality you could ever want, and it's super easy to use
(unlike most stock firmware).  Setting up a VPN couldn't be easier.

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#2414

On 2014-04-16, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On 2014-04-16, tdk <forum.tdk@squte.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm absolutely unable to get to the Pando website 
>>
>> Works for me. Maybe your IP or country is blocked? Does it work
>> through a proxy?  http://hidemyass.com/ 
>>
>
> I'll give it a try.  Blocking IP addresses by geographical region is the
> stupidest idea ever for most stuff.  From here in Senegal I can't even
> get onto the Netflix webpage for example.  So much for buying mom and
> dad a subscription for Xmas.  F.U. Netflix! 

It ain't just out-of-the-way places like Senegal. I regularly have problems
ordering stuff for my Mother, who lives in the USA, from here in the UK.

"No, I do *not* have an effing ZIP code, OK!"

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