Before I clicked on the link, I said to myselff that a piece on deceptive patterns probably deals with emotionally obnoxious sorts, such as narcissistic personalities and borderline cases, who can drive one up the wall with ambiguous, perplexing and annoying communications.
AND THEN I CLICKED ON THE LINK, and I realized how I continue to neglect the ubiquitous and grave changes made by the ascendance of digital technology.
What unscrupulous companies and money grubbing bastards are doing is positively INFURIATING.
WHAT I MIGHT ADD: These practices are hitting the ELDERLY, AND THOSE WITH COMPROMISED VISION WITH SEVERE INTENSITY. I don't like to consider myself old, but my vision is far from perfect. So much shit flashes across my computer screen and I don't know what the fuck is going on.
The chicanery of thieving online prowlers, who are often rich and upstanding corporatoins, is perhaps one of the reasons why SUICIDES AMONG THE ELDERLY HAS BEEN GOING UP.
THE CONSEQUENCEES ARE OFTEN WORSE THAN YOU REALIZE. Consider this scenario:
A) Some BS on the internet cons you into paying 50 bucks by mistake
B) You call your credit card company and the charge is revoked and cancelled.
C) Do you think everything is A OKAY becasue the credit card charges were negated ??
D) Think Again:
E) Whenever you tell your credit card company that you have been invalidly charged, YOUR CREDIT RATING IS DOWNGRADED.
I have other ideas about this issue, but this comment is already too long and I have to go.
Thanks, Paul, for shining a bright light on a terrible new phenomenon that is proving to be a serious threat to the security and livelihods of hundreds of millions of people,.
I've had situations where I started to click on something and something else moved into the place where I clicked, so I was actually clicking on something that I didn't want. Weird.
And then, there's the whole idea of being able to easily unsubscribe. Some sites don't unsubscribe you, no matter how many times to try.
Interesting link, Paul. More than once my Internet searches for products have resulted in those same products showing up advertised in completely different web sites. The data sharing is ubiquitous ... and annoying. Any suggestions as how I can deflect this unwanted solicitation?
Unfortunately, the internet follows you around with cookies that we accept to use certain websites. I use an adblocker that seems to help called uBlock origin. It's a chrome extension and seems to help a bit. Otherwise, you can turn off cookies in Chrome:
On your computer, open Chrome.
At the top right, click More. Settings.
Under "Privacy and security," click Site settings.
Click Cookies and site data.
From here, you can: Turn on cookies: Next to "Blocked," turn on the switch. Turn off cookies: Turn off Allow all cookies.
Before I clicked on the link, I said to myselff that a piece on deceptive patterns probably deals with emotionally obnoxious sorts, such as narcissistic personalities and borderline cases, who can drive one up the wall with ambiguous, perplexing and annoying communications.
AND THEN I CLICKED ON THE LINK, and I realized how I continue to neglect the ubiquitous and grave changes made by the ascendance of digital technology.
What unscrupulous companies and money grubbing bastards are doing is positively INFURIATING.
WHAT I MIGHT ADD: These practices are hitting the ELDERLY, AND THOSE WITH COMPROMISED VISION WITH SEVERE INTENSITY. I don't like to consider myself old, but my vision is far from perfect. So much shit flashes across my computer screen and I don't know what the fuck is going on.
The chicanery of thieving online prowlers, who are often rich and upstanding corporatoins, is perhaps one of the reasons why SUICIDES AMONG THE ELDERLY HAS BEEN GOING UP.
THE CONSEQUENCEES ARE OFTEN WORSE THAN YOU REALIZE. Consider this scenario:
A) Some BS on the internet cons you into paying 50 bucks by mistake
B) You call your credit card company and the charge is revoked and cancelled.
C) Do you think everything is A OKAY becasue the credit card charges were negated ??
D) Think Again:
E) Whenever you tell your credit card company that you have been invalidly charged, YOUR CREDIT RATING IS DOWNGRADED.
I have other ideas about this issue, but this comment is already too long and I have to go.
Thanks, Paul, for shining a bright light on a terrible new phenomenon that is proving to be a serious threat to the security and livelihods of hundreds of millions of people,.
Thank you for your comment, David!
I've had situations where I started to click on something and something else moved into the place where I clicked, so I was actually clicking on something that I didn't want. Weird.
And then, there's the whole idea of being able to easily unsubscribe. Some sites don't unsubscribe you, no matter how many times to try.
Some people have to trick you into clicking a button. Jeesh...
Interesting link, Paul. More than once my Internet searches for products have resulted in those same products showing up advertised in completely different web sites. The data sharing is ubiquitous ... and annoying. Any suggestions as how I can deflect this unwanted solicitation?
Unfortunately, the internet follows you around with cookies that we accept to use certain websites. I use an adblocker that seems to help called uBlock origin. It's a chrome extension and seems to help a bit. Otherwise, you can turn off cookies in Chrome:
On your computer, open Chrome.
At the top right, click More. Settings.
Under "Privacy and security," click Site settings.
Click Cookies and site data.
From here, you can: Turn on cookies: Next to "Blocked," turn on the switch. Turn off cookies: Turn off Allow all cookies.
Hope that helps...
Yeah, I hae an adblocker also. I have not turned off the cookies, but I'll give it a shot. Thanks.
Yea. I think that these companies that do this type of thing are not people to do business with/buy from or whatever they are selling.