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More and more I think the whole ad-driven approach to sites is just unsustainable, as eventually they're incentivised to have dark patterns like this in order to drive up revenue and engagement.

I'm working on my own alternatives, but all I really want is a premium reddit like community that focuses on UX and gives some of my subscription back to the creators.

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> eventually they're incentivised to have dark patterns like this in order to drive up revenue and engagement.

I think you'd still see sites drive engagement, even for paid offerings. Look at Netflix and autoplay.

You're almost asking for something like a media outlet that values the greater good over pretty much everything else.

Fair, but I think Netflix's approach is less nefarious than other platforms. At the end of the day Netflix wants you to do two things: value their platform and spread the word.

With things like instagram and facebook, it's different - their objective is to get you as addicted to the platform as possible, collect as much data as they can, and use it as a platform to surface ads.

They simply have more drivers that are at odds with what's beneficial to the user.

Anyone care to explain why they downvoted this?

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