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DirecTV should be at the top of this list.

I've tried for 2 years straight to cancel my NFL Sunday Ticket subscription, and every year it comes back. It's like a bad penny that I can't get rid of.

But then for each of these years it doesn't bother me as much when the games start back up, but I'll have super buyers remorse at the end of the season. I think they are just banking on that.

It's still a dark dark pattern they are running.

DirectTV was sold to AT&T in September 2019. My experience is : they call up, I say "Do not add channels, do NOT add a channel that I have to cancel later when billing starts. REPEAT: DO NOT ADD CHANNELS. Thanks for calling. Good bye." And they add channels. NFL and other sports need to team with Youtube, hulu or netflix next time.

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You can fork and/or add an entry. That's why it is in the open.

Facebook should top the list for this to even remotely be viewed as credible, IMHO

Yeah when your top 6 includes an auto-renewal dark pattern but none of the big social media companies it's not super credible.

Every FAANG company should be on the list.

I am confused by this. It this really just a list of 6 companies doing vague "bad things"? It hasn't even been updated in a year and a half. What is the point of posting this? Why is it being upvoted?

It's a start.

It's difficult to tell what the intentions of this list are. "Bad things" is a very vague and subjective idea.

It's like obscenity: "I know it when I see it". [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it

Yup. Probably won't be long before we see entries along the lines of "2020, InnocentBusiness: donating to a political campaign I don't like". These lists based off of subjective objectives never end well.

I mean with the list that some in Congress are suggesting, that's a definite possibility

Could of at least gone through the Panama papers and listed the companies from that. A list is generally a bad format for this because it's just unwieldy - a graph is going to be more usable and meaningful.

Could have

I thought about doing a tumblr or something similar some years back to cover the same topic, or more specifically when companies enact a bad change by hiding it in the fine print.

Doesn't look like there have been many updates to this project over the past year, though.

I do think we should hold more companies accountable for this kind of stuff. Search results can be quickly buried.

Should probably just make it a database and then connect it to another list of dark money groups

Why is this flagged?

Ironic to me because it's hosted on gitlab.

And links to hn.

Does HN support Dark Mode yet?

Not yet, but I highly recommend just using Dark Reader for everything.

https://darkreader.org/

It supports Stylus CSS injection.

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