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Comment by ttoinou

4 hours ago

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

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

  • 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.