2025-02-26 18:49 UTC
Video Dispatch #14: Pay to Disable
Features that are more profitable as a detriment than a benefit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BECMsuhX6Zw
1/7
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@fasterandworse@hci.social 2025-02-26 18:50
The gist: Sometimes a product has a feature which is so bad that a significant portion of people would prefer not have it at all. This can lead to an insidious revenue angle of demanding a payment to turn the feature off. An identified poor user experience as blackmail. 2/7
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@fasterandworse@hci.social 2025-02-26 19:04
I really had to rush this out because of other things so I'll finish the thread asap
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@fasterandworse@hci.social 2025-02-27 19:42
I am painfully aware of how easy it is to say this is obvious, common, and nothing new, but I can swear there is a nuance here that I'm not expressing very well