Hiding Your Choices And Saying You Made Them

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 16, 2003 @07:01AM from the lowest-underbelly-of-the-lowest-snake dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Lawmeme's Paul Szynol describes how during installation RealPlayer hides checkboxes that elect that the user receives spam, making it look like the user chose to make the selections when in fact he probably just didn't see the options. "This is essentially a cheap and dirty marketing tactic which creates an illusion of informed acceptance by the user where no such acceptance really exists." Other people have posted similar examples from other applications. Is this illegal, or just annoying?"

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Re:OT: Slash update? by Cruciform · 2003-01-16 07:15 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Yeah, I noticed that too.
Even with "excellent" karma, it doesn't mod to +2 automatically anymore. Not that I mind, but I'm sure there's a few karma-whores tearing out their short and curlies with frustration :)