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Amazon Checkout. This should be illegal. (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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That is not 2 separate buttons on the right, like I initially thought clicking through checkout.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, they are: the link on the left clearly states “

I said it already:

Common UI has "yes" and "no" (or whatever terms) next to each other, often in different colors. This is mimicing it so you think it's two separate buttons when it's one button for "yes".

Not on opposite sides of the screen. Next to each other.

And the whole right side has a big blue box around it. As in all your attention needs to be on the right side, that's where the decision tree is.

And then like I said, it has the affirmative, and right where you'd expect it the refusal button. But it's not a refusal button, it's part of the affirmative button.

I don’t share your view that “Cancel anytime” underneath that button is confusing.

Oh you just did it! "Cancel anytime" is not underneath the button, it is part of the affirmative button. Part of.

Congrats you just got confused. You went on autopilot and got it mixed up. You know, based on what you'd expect based on common UI. You just did what you are lambasting others for.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh you just did it! "Cancel anytime" is not underneath the button, it is part of the affirmative button. Part of.

…but it’s not part of the button. The yellow button that says “Continue with Amazon Prime” is fully contained within the yellow button that one would click to proceed.

I’m not sure how much clearer the decline option being on the left, and the proceed option on the right, highlighted in yellow, could be.

And again, the “Cancel anytime” subtext isn’t even clickable, so what deceptive action has Amazon engineered here? For someone to click on a non-clickable target?

There’s no arguing that this is stupid design, but that doesn’t make it asshole design. Hanlon’s razor and all that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Take another look! Both the yellow button and "cancel ..." are part of the same bigger grey box.

This is OP's complaint. It looks like two boxes/buttons, but it's one bigger button containing both. You click "cancel...", and you've really just clicked the bigger box that subscribes.

Congrats, you did exactly, exactly, what OP did.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

…being within the same container does not make them both the same clickable target. Do you know from personal experience that clicking “Cancel anytime” is clickable? Because as I said, over two hours ago,

It’s not possible to know from this screenshot alone if “Cancel Anytime” is a clickable target or if it’s just text, but when taking a quick glance at least to my eyes the options seem pretty clearly delineated. Amazon sucks and they are plenty predatory, I’m just saying this is a pretty mild example of hostile UI if at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

First I'm not tracking down your other comments.

Second, if it's not clickable then OPs complaint makes no sense. The entire context of his post and text indicates that it's clickable. This is OPs entire complaint.

But at this point I think you're scrambling for making the exact, exact same mistake as OP. You played yourself. Enjoy the last ~~word~~ attempt to get yourself out of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There "cancel any time" is definitely clickable. It signs you up to Amazon prime with one click.