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  • LvxferreEnglish
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    2 months ago

    As I mentioned in another thread, at the end of the day those patterns all boil down to exploiting some asymmetry between the user and the system. For example:

    • Users eventually get tired into compliance. The system doesn’t.
    • Users are prone to emotional manipulation. The system doesn’t.
    • Users don’t have full knowledge of the system. The system does.
    • Users can’t dictate the terms. The system does.
    • etc.

    (“System” in this case means “the product, who designed it, and who sells it”.)