AssholeDesign

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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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My bank gives me the option to opt out of marketing communications. It takes three clicks to opt out of each category, and there are three pages like this! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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Marketing should always be OPT-IN by default, but these extra steps to opt out is truly asshole design.

Oh, and on the opt-out confirmation screen, you get two options: Yes or No. The button colour for "yes" is white, and the “no” button matches the “save” button on the previous screen, so it's easy to accidentally cancel the opt-out. Double-asshole design!

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All I wanted as an "opt out of all" option and that's that. This was done on purpose, no doubt. They also had a redesign of the app many months ago, which made is incredibly hard to use because of the color scheme. I can imagine some people with accessibility issues are simply not able to use the app now.

[–] DampCanary@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks EU for enforcing opt-in regime which makes this obsolete.

https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/subjects/eprivacy-directive_en here

[–] thistledown@rblind.com 2 points 8 months ago

If only I lived in the EU!