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Ever signed up for something online and then found it very difficult to unsubscribe? Then you've been to a roach motel - one of many web design tricks employed by some firms to drum up more trade.

Microsoft provoked outrage recently when it was revealed that closing a pop-up box reminding Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10 was treated as consent to the upgrade, if a common setting was in place.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36403020

The site - http://darkpatterns.org - which the BBC’s article links to is an interesting read.

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I'm incredibly wary of that sh1t.

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