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Comment by nickjj

4 hours ago

Yeah this seems to be a trend over the last few years.

Google does this too. I don't have photos backed up to my Google account on a Pixel and every few days if I open the photos app it prompts me to backup to the cloud and I always have to click "maybe later", "not now" or whatever they decide to name it.

It's messed up because if I were to accidentally ever click yes to that it would fill up my Google storage and I would no longer be able to receive email since I'd have 0% storage. I don't get how something so dangerous can be shoved in front of you so frequently. I know it's marketing / advertising to constantly remind you of something even if you don't want it, but I would have thought customer happiness would outweigh that.

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duzer65657  3 hours ago

or every time you click a YT link in firefox on android it asks "do you want to open this in the YT App?" where you're options are Yes (with an always use app checkbox) and "Cancel" to open in the browser. Like "Cancel" means "no, get out of the way and do what I want before you injected yourself in this flow"

  • iamtedd  2 hours ago

    You can disable the YouTube app's handler for YouTube URLs. In the app info, open by default. I haven't tried it, but presumably, all YouTube URLs will then open in your browser.

ttoinou  4 hours ago

Those are dark patterns for sure. I don’t know how big companies can still pull that in 2026

  • 3form  3 hours ago

    People were eased into a defeatist attitude over time. Easily done when everyone's trying to achieve it.

    • ethbr1  2 hours ago

      Management and PM kung fu:

         - Here's the KPI
   - Team can't figure out another way to boost KPI
   - Team implements dark pattern

      System working as pathologically-intended.

      The root problem is there are seemingly no user experience quality KPIs on the development side to counterbalance revenue / usage / adoption ones.