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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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UltimateGuitar shows a fake tutorial video with the title of the song you're trying to learn. Clicking it just brings you to the sign-up page for their premium subscription. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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[–] nyankas@lemmy.ml 101 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They also always have a countdown on the top of the page, suggesting their unbelievable 80% off deal is about to end and you should buy it now or it‘ll be gone forever! Quick!

It‘s not ending. It never ends. It just resets at the end of the day. The guys running this site are dickheads.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

You should probably buy it though! You know, just in case!!!