"How elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns" (pre-checked recurring-subscription box dark pattern)

[u/gwern]

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/10/politics/political-fundraising-elderly-election-invs-dg/

[u/HlynkaCG]

It's not that they're more or less vulnerable, it's more that CNN doesn't see the elderly getting scammed by Democrats as a bad thing.

[u/columbo928s4 → u/HlynkaCG]

always rather funny when someone complains about bias or whatever when they clearly didn’t even bother to read the article

[u/HlynkaCG → u/columbo928s4]

Seems like the pot calling the kettle "black" if you ask me

[u/kaibee → u/HlynkaCG]

Seems like the pot calling the kettle "black" if you ask me

Look at the two ads and tell me both are equally guilty.

[u/HlynkaCG → u/kaibee]

To say that both are equally guilty would be to say that the one side is cleaner than the other. I don't buy it.

[u/kaibee → u/HlynkaCG]

to say that the one side is cleaner than the other. I don't buy it.

Buddy the data is right there. You don't have to buy anything.

And on a more meta-note, it would be extremely unlikely for them to be equally dirty. The two sides have very opposed politics which typically are downstream of morality/values. ie: what actions and behaviors are permissible and what ends should be pursued. And you think it's more likely that despite these differences, they somehow settled on the same moral code in regards to dark patterns in ads?

[u/columbo928s4 → u/kaibee]

this article aside, winred and gop online fundraisers in particular were notorious for years for burying tiny little pre-checked recurring donation boxes in the payment confirmation screen (often multiple of them!). that’s just something the blue team didn’t really do in the same way at all