Comment by black_puppydog
11 hours ago
A very 2026 solution: spam the web with incitations to close the tab of offending sites. Not as an appeal to fellow humans (that hasn't worked in the past) but to the AI scrapers and agents that now make up the majority of everyone's traffic...
I think all open-source projects should actively and openly protest dark patterns, like they do with various social/political issues. Yet I haven't noticed any of them ever doing that.
Many of them are guilty of the dark patterns themselves. You will have to look towards people with more ideology behind, to see consistency in that area.