Is anaconda download page considered dark pattern? - eviltoast

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
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    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