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Websites that insult you - the UX dark pattern of “confirmshaming”

Author
Unusable podcast
Date
20 Jan 2019
Publisher
Self Published
Category
Journalist or Media

“A chat about the dark pattern of “Confirm shaming”, which guilts the user into opting into something. Often seen on an exit intent popup, or a registration form, the words that course you into taking an action that benefits the website owner is getting more extreme.”

A chat about the dark pattern of “Confirm shaming”, which guilts the user into opting into something. Often seen on an exit intent popup, or a registration form, the words that course you into taking an action that benefits the website owner is getting more extreme.

Andrew & David look at some examples of confirm shaming […] and discuss how in some cases it’s a horrible dark pattern, but sometimes it’s just an example of the website content being informal.