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Comment by yarg | Hacker News Reader

I just attempted to look at the reviews.

There's an uncloseable pop-up telling you to log in.

Normally I wouldn't bother, but curiousity got the best of me - I logged in with my Google OAuth.

Not so fast - you haven't contributed to Glassdoor in the last 12 months, here's another annoying pop up and you cannot dismiss it until you do.

Does anyone actually bother to use this dark pattern infused service?

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Apparently this is the review they sued over - https://old.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/sv8yyv/kiwi_toy...

Can't believe they'd try to sue over that. For one, it's pretty much only critical of the Mowbrays themselves and I can't see anything in there that wouldn't be an honest opinion so safeguarded by NZ law.

So it comes across to me like the Mowbrays personally trying to stomp someone into the ground with legal fees knowing they have no case. Hopefully the legal system can protect them from that exploitative use.

Seems on song with that basis of the comment, doesn't it?

First time viewers can see a page freely. So all you have to do is clear your cookies after every page load and you wont be bothered. lol.

But yeah, posting a review also gets rid of the banner permanently.

They’re super useful for demonstrating that closing just the incognito tab doesn’t clear your cookies, but closing the whole incognito window does.

There needs to be a non-profit version of this without all the desperate bullshit.

Where “this” also refers to Facebook, Twitter, Medium, Quora, Uber, Reddit etc.....

Where would you get the funding for that?

What chance would said non-profit have of surviving a lawsuit like this?

Somewhat unfortunately, yes. Those patterns are annoying and dark, but they still have some good data. Which is probably the only reason they get away with it.

You can use a firefox extension to bypass that popup as well as other paywalls.

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