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April 30th, 1:18am 0 comments

Facebook's "Evil Interfaces" | Electronic Frontier Foundation

a good interface is meant to help users achieve their goals as easily as possible. But an "evil" interface is meant to trick users into doing things they don't want to. Conti's examples include aggressive pop-up ads, malware that masquerades as anti-virus software, and pre-checked checkboxes for unwanted "special offers".

The new Facebook is full of similarly deceptive interfaces.

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