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:evil interfaces

[Anonymous Coward]

Outlook Express has been my favorite mail client for quite awhile (though I've been using Outlook 2010 for awhile and the conversation view is growing on me). In fact, I always found the UI rather simple and straightforward - what are the evil parts of the interface you're referring to?

Outlook has a very nice interface. But you see, criticizing Microsoft on Slashdot gets you automatically moderated up.

It's interesting when the bias gets so bad that people don't even have to explain themselves.

Re:Ok, honestly

[tqk]

There's a whole fscking Universe out there filled with value, if we can get to it.

And as environmental disasters like the Deepwater Horizon show, there are large chunks of the Universe which remain filled with value only if we don't get to it and destroy it.

Corporations are cheap. BP's been dragging its ass on this for years. All of them do. Corps should be illegal (have I mentioned I'm incorporated?). A half million bucks (the cost of two days drilling in Canada's north) would have prevented that, but that's too much to withhold from their shareholders, so Lousiana gets slapped again.

Corporations are cheap, yes, but fscking up eastern Gulf of Mexico is hardly comparable to humanity's potential footprint on the Universe. The latter is chutzpah, if anything. Earth's finite. Universe, not so.