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   Cassandra has had an adventure (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 12:32:45 JST Cassandra has had an adventure

   GOD FUCKING DAMN IT

   I misclicked slightly while browsing GitHub and hit the Copilot button by accident. Now apparently I'm on the free plan for it, am already getting spam e-mail about Copilot, and who knows what in the fuck else.

   Fucking dark patterns.

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     Misinformation-Superhighwayman (damienwise@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 12:33:08 JST Misinformation-Superhighwayman

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     @xgranade The location is deliberate, and designed to hijack accidental clicks/taps. Good UI design has reserved areas / padding / empty space around critical or high-risk functions.
     Same goes for this Deceptive Design in recent versions of Android. It subverts years of trained muscle-memory for tapping into the search bar. And, too bad if you accidentally make what it considers a tap on the '✨' button with the base of your thumb while you're tapping anywhere else on the screen with the tip of your thumb.

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     Cassandra has had an adventure (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 12:33:09 JST Cassandra has had an adventure

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     Whomever made that button so close to the search bar, and whomever made that button instantly sign you up for shit with zero confirmation? Yeah, they can both step on so many legos. Maybe even some d4s.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Cassandra has had an adventure (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 12:33:10 JST Cassandra has had an adventure

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     I'm sure that's in some dashboard now, too. I fucking hate this shit so much.