It's the pre-conference waiting music while attendees navigate the unintentional #darkpattern of the stubborn AV touchscreen interface https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ozy1EcB9kY

Actually, dark patterns do exist on #Mastodon. We don’t recognize them as dark patterns because we’re too politicized to see what’s obvious in plain sight.

But here’s an example of a #darkpattern on Mastodon: harassers being able to send you abusive messages as “followers only”. This renders the message invisible from public view while being visible to everyone who follows the abuser – followers who are likely to have the same toxic affinity as the abuser.

Let’s not pretend this is not a dark pattern. It clearly is.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/harryprayiv/statuses/114082840668402297

As I am in the process of cancelling it, here's a view of the current UK #Disney Plus subscription prices. As you can see they now have the #enshittification option of "with ads". Presumably the "ad-free" will have ads soon too. Being a #darkpattern based design, this "change your plan" page of course lacks any option to pause or cancel my subscription. The hunt begins...

It is really disgusting that #Apple is still trying to sell me their "Apple Pay" service with EACH and EVERY iOS upgrade.

And even more disgusting that I cannot remove that crap warning.

I DO NOT WANT TO USE APPLE PAY. EVER. REALLY!

Shame on you, Tim Apple.

I clicked to cancel my Amazon Prime membership (which I didn't intentionally sign up for) and got to this page.

Is my cancellation complete at this point? How many people would get it wrong? How intentional is that?

Nei, Power, dette er ikke greit!

Very true! Worse for the video ads that follow you around while you’re trying to read something.
#darkPattern #uxfail

So, let me get this straight. In order for my Adobe plan to be canceled, I'd need to update my payment info so that they could charge me before canceling the plan.

#UnlimitedVacation is a #darkPattern; so when you #interview for a #job where they have "unlimited vacation" you should ask your interviewer who at the company takes the most #vacation, and how many days a year they take.

The most user hostile #webpage I've ever seen is the #Xfinity account management site; specifically the https://customer.xfinity.com/#/devices#usage page where you can see if you have exceeded the data cap which is useful for avoiding overage fees.

It takes 30 seconds to load! 10 seconds to load the #HTML, another 10 to load the #JS and #CSS!

Not because they are big files mind you, that's just how slow their servers are.