Facebook's "Evil Interfaces"

An anonymous reader writes "Tim Jones over at the EFF's Deep Links Blog just posted an interesting article on the widespread use of deceptive interface techniques on the Web. He began by polling his Twitter and Facebook audience for an appropriate term for this condition and received responses like 'Bait-and-Click' and 'Zuckerpunched.' Ultimately, he chose 'Evil Interfaces' from Greg Conti's HOPE talk on malicious interface design and follow-up interview with media-savvy puppet Weena. Tim then goes on to dissect Facebook (with pictures). So, what evil interfaces have you encountered on (or off) the Web?"

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Re:slashdot's change password interface

[Hurricane78]

The worst interface is one that doesn’t exist.
Examples:
- Slashdot name change interface (I know the reasons. But I still find it an excuse for laziness in coming up with a proper solution.)
- Really any Apple UI ever.
- Any recent Gnome UI. (Dev. motto: “You don’t need that, because we say so, and because you are stupid anyway.”) [Don’t worry, KDE4 also caught up and is approaching the same territory.] [I don’t know about Windows since I’m not touching that. I start it with K->Games->Windows XP, which should tell you something about what I think it is good for. :]