Something about how this article was animated out hurt my brain to look at. It had a lot on page telling me about how much there was too much information on the screen of the phone which was nested inside the page. And then every arrow press would move around the dialog boxes (some of which jiggled to fight for my attention extra hard) and update the little avatar. The content was interesting but it felt kind of ironic that a product psychology website was this mentally taxing to use.
I liked that they took all the time to decry all these dark practices, and then hit you at the end with "Do you want a summary of the presentation? Click this button!" which I'm sure requires you to sign up for their email newsletter and start on their customer pipeline.
I think it's fair game to try to build a product and tell people about it in a healthy way. The person has made some content that you found enjoyable enough to consume until the end. Giving you a prompt on how you can find more doesn't seem dark at all to me. If you aren't interested, no big deal -- you just close the tab like you would have anyway.
It's pretty well executed on desktop. Maybe revisit it, if you're interested in the visuals or want to learn about how that Mario Kart title drains your wallet.
I am on desktop, and on a technical level, its well executed. But it was so much more exhausting to read than a simple text article with pictures.
I initially visited the site, saw how the navigation etc worked, figured it wasnt worth the read. Only after reading some comments here I figured I'd bear through it. Wasnt worth it in the end imho
Am on desktop, and was genuinely interested in learning about the subject, but stopped reading 1/3 through because I didn't want to have to keep clicking and watching an animation after every sentence.
Oh well. Someone else will complain they didn't want to read a multi page article on the topic, and others will complain about having to watch a video that doesn't let them move at their own speed. Can't make everybody happy.
