Reply to post: Two such patterns missed completely

The seven deadly sins of the 2010s: No, not pride, sloth, etc. The seven UI 'dark patterns' that trick you into buying stuff

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Two such patterns missed completely

1. Throwing completely irrelevant junk into search results. Sometimes it might be a genuinely poor matching algorithm or the junk having irrelevant key-words but not always. Throwing in a bunch of key-words deliberately is included.

2. "You may also like...", "Other customers also bought..." and the like.

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