These practices are also indicative of a culture of dishonesty. The design changes are indicative of the culture
It then makes absolute sense that most of their clicks can be categorized as fraudulent. The only possible conclusion, then, is that they did this specifically to inflate the number of clicks. The only differences are the “Promoted” text. They even have the comments and votes button. They must have also know that users would click on them without having any intention to view the ad. They must have known that making the results look the same as regular posts. This must have been an intentional design choice. The ads look extremely similar to regular threads This seems like an attempt to basically shame people into not using it. But keeping true to their disrespectful form, you don’t set your status to offline, you set your status to “Hiding”. Something that pretty much every chat application has. When they added online indicators they added a way to hide your online status. But you cannot open all the comments.Īnd you can’t even view some threads at all Then you can tap view more which will load another two. This gives the impression that you have to register to see the homepage as well.įirst of all, only the top comment will be shown.
#STOPAD IO REDDIT REGISTRATION#
But the logo has been made to link to the registration page. Redirecting the logo to registration pageĪnd when you land on a subreddit that is blocked you’re likely to tap the logo to go to the homepage. On mobile you can no longer browse most subreddits without an account. Closing off subreddits for not logged in users Here are examples of dark (perhaps dark is too strong but they’re certainly at least grey) patterns that I noticed: Asking for email and making it seem that it’s requiredīut in fact you can just click next. Not only that, but they kept trying to present them in a way that made it seem like they’re doing it for the sake of their users. I’ve stopped using Reddit mostly because I no longer wanted to support a site that has aggressively started to employ disrespectful design patterns.
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