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[โ€“] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe I'm behind on my terms but does this count as a dark pattern?

It was my understanding that dark patterns are a thing designed to use a service in a way that they wouldn't normally intend to, like renew a subscription or leave privacy options to the benefit of the company instead of the user.

This just seems like a scam, or at best highly deceptive advertising? Like, for it to be a dark pattern it would have to actually be able to send you to some android update system, but it almost certainly isn't ever going to do that.

[โ€“] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

I suppose that is correct per the definition, thanks for the correction.