It’s been a while since I last downloaded anaconda. But I remember when clicking on the download page, it would show the usual “choose your OS > download binary” (eg this archived version in 2019).

Recently I helped someone else set it up and it showed a form to put on email, with smaller gray text near the bottom of the form about skipping it.

Does this count as a dark pattern?

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
    19·
    4 months ago

    They hit two dark patterns out of a possible seven.

    I should make a browser plug-in that finds dark patterns and reverses them.

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
        23·
        4 months ago

        First two: using color and button size/placement to guide clicks

        The ones they didn’t do:

        • Misdirection of reason for interacting with elements
        • pre-selecting the checkbox
        • making the background elements a clickbox
        • using colors to scare user into a certain action
        • using text to scare user into a certain action
  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
    17·
    4 months ago

    For those dark pattern email boxes I like entering things like admin@[website that’s serving a dark pattern mailbox] or marketing@website because 50% of the time it just gives me whatever without any trouble and the other 50% of the time I clear cookies and consider if I really need whatever they’re gating behind harvesting my email…

    • inspxtr@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      4 months ago

      thanks for confirming my suspicion. as for your question, conda in general is good for installing non-python binaries when needed, and managing env. I don’t use anaconda but it provides a good enough interface for beginners and folks without much coding experience. It’s usually the easiest to use that than other variants for them, or the python route of setting up environments

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 months ago

    It clearly says: Skip Registration. Don’t see how this counts as a Dark Pattern.