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Creative but annoying PayPal dark pattern

36 points| yani | 4 years ago |medium.com

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ephbit|4 years ago

Isn't PayPal in itself a dark pattern?

Most of my online payment transactions happen with credit card or bank transfer anyway ... absolutely no need for PayPal to annoy me by injecting themselves as man in the middle ... such an annoying company.

Jxl180|4 years ago

If you are taking credit cards online, I assume you have a man in the middle regardless. Whether you choose to go with Stripe, Square, Braintree, or PayPal is completely up to you.

TechBro8615|4 years ago

Most of the modern financial system is a dark pattern. If we were to reinvent finance from scratch, the result wouldn’t look anything like what we have.

playpause|4 years ago

How do they inject themselves as a man in the middle? I don’t think I have ever been forced to use PayPal to pay for something.

gruez|4 years ago

hanlon's razor applies here. Sure, it could be some sort of malicious trick to get people to click their ads, ...or it could be because the ad is slow to load.

Stevvo|4 years ago

Well, no. Developers choose when & how each image on the page is loaded.