If you require to have an account to try the web search out (which you have all the right in the world, it's your service), tell us before we enter the service and type in our search. This comes around as sneaky. You should be clear upfront.
If they put the sign up first, you wouldn't know how much more information you'd need to give before doing a search (just a string), and that seems like it would undersell themselves.
This seems a lot better than those quizzes or quotes that ask a bunch of questions first and then ask for your email at the end -- or worse -- a payment.
In case you're serious, continuous dark patterns make the web exhausting to use. When I get an email I didn't want, I report it as spam so the sender's domain reputation decreases[0]. Making a comment calling out the practice is the closest you can do here.
fanzhang|9 months ago
This seems a lot better than those quizzes or quotes that ask a bunch of questions first and then ask for your email at the end -- or worse -- a payment.
vetleen|9 months ago
a_n|9 months ago
OsrsNeedsf2P|9 months ago
[0] https://lemmy.ml/post/13850772