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self_awarenesstoday at 2:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

The background story is that Allegro defaults the selection of infrastructure from their competitors to their own, even if the user uses competitor all the time. Sometimes the user forgets to check, and it will result in using Allegro's infrastructure even if the user didn't want it.

It's called "a dark pattern".


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lossolotoday at 4:55 PM

> Sometimes the user forgets to check, and it will result in using Allegro's infrastructure even if the user didn't want it.

Strasznie denerwujące, też mnie to spotkało.

mystifyingpoitoday at 2:13 PM

Right, now I get what you're referring to.