I want you to all remember this video as the one where I came into the shot and sat down
to make it more of an interesting video.
Please never forget that.
You promise?
My name is Danny Burke, this is Whats Good - the reccomendation show for the busy viewer,
I like really like video likers - todays video is called How Dark Patters Trick You Online
and its from the one and only Nerdwriter.
Ahhhh part of me hates this guy because of how good he really is - its disgusting.
I keep thinking maybe hell make a bad video one and then I will magically become the Nerdwriter
- but no, Im here today to report hes bloody done it again - this is an amazing video all
about how companies trick you online.
Have you guys ever tried to delete an account online before?
Have you ever thought its insanely hard to do?
Its almost like they don't want you to delete your account … Ive done found this a few
times with sites like Facebook but I had no idea just how bad Amazon is.
They make you go through a maze of links to finally delete your account - there is no
way you would know which ones were the right ones to click on unless someone told you or
you spent all day trying every single route.
Or route.
But perhaps the most mental part for me comes right at the end - the final step involves
a live chat with an Amazon employee - you basically have to beg for your account to
be deleted - its their job to convince you to not
do it.
Can you imagine if thats how things worked in real life?
Imagine if you wanted to cancel your gym membership? - which is something Ive never done, ahem.
And when you get to the gym, the only way to cancel your membership is to walk into
the gym backwards, tap the ceiling twice and tell the the employee youd like to activate
order 42.
If you didnt do any of that - sorry you cant cancel - if you somehow managed to find all
of that out and do it - you still have to have chat with them to convince them its a
good idea for you.
How about no mate.
Nerdwriter goes on to explain the whole theory of dark patterns online - this is something
that all of you have seen before but you probably didnt know there was a term for it - at least
I didnt.
Using the email there is an example I can relate to - it took me a long to figure out
that spam emails hide the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the email in tiny font that
is usually in a light shade - something that wouldnt really stand out to you.
He goes on to use other examples of how games and websites use these tricks of different
font size, colour, shading as well as text hiding to keep you right where they want you.
My favourite example he showed was this ad from chatmost which literally has fake speck
of dirt on it so that you will try and wipe it off and then accidentally visit the site
… sigh … I may start using that for all my videos.
Its annoying that this companies do this right?
It feels kinda dishonest, a bit misleading - but is it illegal?
Can the government outlaw companies from using psychological tricks and hiding techniques
to stop us from using their services?
The Nerdwriter goes into that in the rest of the video - he does a better job of exploring
it that I could and the rest of the video as always, is mwwwah - tasty.
Its a tasty video.
Go and check him out if you havent done so alreadyyyy, let me know if you think everything
weve talked about today is totally cool and legal or like really not cool and illegal.
In just a few seconds you are gonna see another Whats Good video pop up on your screen - if
all of you watching this tapped on that next then it would get like, it would get, the
video would get, that video would get like, the views would be, the views would go, it
would get like 7 more views.
At least.
My name is Danny Burke and thats … (get up) … Whats Good.
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