This. Fuck me. Booked two trips away today and now I'm almost trembling with anxiousness.
Didn't bloody help when the Ryanair site let me get as far as verifying my credit card and requiring me to open my bank app to confirm, only to go OOPS your session expired!
Fuuucckkk yyooouuuu
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So many deceptive and anxiety-heightening options and popups and calls to action and trickery and fuuuuuuu
We're university educated nerds and we find this horrifically stressful. Not that we've got more common sense or street smarts or whatever, not at all.
But like, this isn't normal. It sucks.
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@sarajw If anything I think the knowledge of the dark patterns and fragility adds another dimension of stress that the average person isn't aware of.
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@Jbasoo I imagine the stress levels are similar - but for us it comes with the anger of knowing why it's happening and how it could be done better!
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@sarajw Yeah, exactly. On a technical level I'm aware of what's breaking, poorly designed, or specifically designed to take advantage of me. Even when it's functional I'm always paranoid that I'm missing some dark pattern that's coercing me down a certain path.
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@Jbasoo yeah true - and because of that I end up with multiple tabs open looking at multiple versions of the same thing from different angles 😅
Well, at least we have late spring and autumn trips booked. Ooof.
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