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It's most definitely a dark pattern.

Just how reddit now prompts you to enter an email when you register but it's not marked as required and it doesn't say optional either.

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To be fair, it’s really unusual that they even let you get an account without an email — I believe they’re still one of the only major sites left that allow this at all.

Not unusual when you consider this fact: when reddit was originally founded back in '05, the ability to create an anonymous account with a pseudonym in seconds was the goal. The redesign is a shame, but I'm glad they chose to stick with their old UI via a decicated URL (old.reddit.com).

Well, yeah, another thing ruined by spammers

(And the redesign is truly a shame)

Let's start calling this what it really is.

Evil pattern.

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