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Web.com charges 13 months in a year.

They bill months in 4 week intervals— so a month = 28 days which = 13 months per year. This is all in their fine print.

Screenshot: https://twitter.com/stevebenjamins/status/138531992456700313...

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Ooh, your twitter link reminded me of a twitter dark pattern. Twitter makes a distinction between a visitor who has never had an account, and a visitor who had an account but is currently logged out. I made an account in order to test their API, then logged out. From then until when I cleared cookies from twitter, every publicly visible post was denied access, prompting me to log in to view them.

Same with Google Groups

Report it on Regulations.gov! Posting a comment on HN does nothing.

Such a simple and blatant example of false advertising. Why does the FTC need to request comments? Just take action and crush this stuff! We are so careful about making businesses sad in this country.

I don't think I would call this a dark pattern as much as just false advertising. Putting an asterisk that links to teeny fine print where they say "a month is not a month" does not absolve them, and if there were enough money at stake (guessing there probably isn't) any competent lawyer should be able to get a good class action out of this.

"We use a calendar.....that nobody else uses": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

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