I’d expect that kinda shit from Amazon (ironically they don’t even do that with free Prime months, even though they intentionally word it as if they did – but they don’t) or some shady freemium app. Definitely not looking forward to Apple embracing the inherent shittyness of a “services” company.

So https://totallynoscam.com/pinkypromise/twitter.com/gotem is like totally fine, right? As long as I got a valid SSL cert for my super legit totallynoscam.com domain

(Bonus annoying: They included an extra period at the end within the quotation marks. Taken literally, none of their own links would fit that rule.)

There’s an unwritten rule that every website remotely connected to the travel industry has to be filled to the brim with dark patterns.

Related: Ad-Closing texts

The best way to show up as the cheapest option in flight aggregators like Google Flights is to return a wrong price and then confront the customer with an entirely different price in the checkout process.

Bonus points for the wording pretending the customer has a choice.

Apart from being incredibly slow, Lufthansa’s site is also unhelpful.

The good part about the JavaScript infested online ad landscape is that they break in surprising ways.

It’s nice to see that behind the scenes everything is just powered by curl.

Nothing could be more accurate.

I enjoy nothing more than helping a billion dollar corporation with classifying their machine learning input.