AssholeDesign

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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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The weightloss app simple is blatantly lying about the welcome offer. (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Cattail@lemmy.world to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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In this pricing table welcome offer says 34.99 per 3 month which feels like you pay 35 euro for every 3 months but actually its only for the first 3 month and it auto renews at 69.99 euros.

i am not even sure how can this be legal.

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[–] zoostation@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It says 50% off in a bright color, clearly indicating it's on sale. And then immediately after, it explicitly clarifies that the non sale price will apply after the initial promotional offer term. This is standard and I don't think it's misleading. It's just on sale.

[–] Cattail@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I could argue the asshole design is the subscription model, but it seems the European apps are not as exploitative as American ones

[–] zoostation@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

It is annoying, it just doesn't stand out as unusual, at least to an American.

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's very much the same in Europe.