The BBC was reported to the Deceptive Design Tip Line over a registration banner on its news site. According to the report, visiting a page invokes a banner prompting the user to create an account, with the “Register” prompt pre-selected and the “Maybe later” option made inconspicuous. The reporter added that choosing “Maybe later” requires anyone with no intention of ever registering to make a false statement about their future intent, and described this as an attempt to guilt the person into registering or implying that they wish to.
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BBC: Deceptive registration banner attempts to guilt users into creating an account
“Visiting a page on the news site invokes a banner prompting to create an account. The ‘Register’ prompt is pre-selected and the ‘Maybe later’ option is inconspicuous. Plus ‘Maybe later’ leads the user to have to make a false statement about their future intent if they have absolutely no intention of ever registering. It attempts to guilt the person into registering or implying they wish to do so but do not have the time right now.”