It’s been a while since I last downloaded anaconda. But I remember when clicking on the download page, it would show the usual “choose your OS > download binary” (eg this archived version in 2019).
Recently I helped someone else set it up and it showed a form to put on email, with smaller gray text near the bottom of the form about skipping it.
Does this count as a dark pattern?
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
For those dark pattern email boxes I like entering things like admin@[website that’s serving a dark pattern mailbox] or marketing@website because 50% of the time it just gives me whatever without any trouble and the other 50% of the time I clear cookies and consider if I really need whatever they’re gating behind harvesting my email…
I like yaya@erewhon.com (sorry to the admin, it means nowhere, I assume it’s like /dev/null) Just like everyone should be using 01/01/1970 for a birthdate
Please stop doxxing me. JK but I use 01/01/1980 for some reason.
That is a great alternative to sfgdgsgshajdjajshags@gmail.com, I’ll also feel less bad about accidentally hitting a real email.
I never expected anyone to guess my address. Thanks a lot.
haha nice. I’ll try that next time