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to be honest, that's pretty tame as far as dark patterns go.

If a user had already typed their email onto the field, then the user had at least some intent to sign up whatever the user wanted to sign up for.

This makes what ad trackers and ISPs do with how we browse seem like war crimes if you were to call this a 'dark pattern'

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A dark pattern is tricking the user into doing something they didn't mean to do. I don't expect or intend my email address to be uploaded before I click submit. I expect it to happen after.