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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35275601

This is sneaky, but everyone seems to be doing it these days.

They in big letters advertise €1.53 per month, but on checkout you discover they don't offer any monthly payment plans, you can only pay annually, and paying "only" one year upfront the price is 36% higher. For the price you thought you'd be getting you need to pay 3 years upfront.

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's a pretty common pattern nowadays.

[–] AnonomousWolf@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

Sadly it's everywhere yes. We should be calling companies out on it.