[HN Gopher] Bad UI is causing people to get scammed ___________________________________________________________________ Bad UI is causing people to get scammed Author : samemail88 Score : 27 points Date : 2022-07-08 20:55 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (ashlan.com) (TXT) w3m dump (ashlan.com) | einpoklum wrote: | Bad UI allows for scamming? Amazing. Also, sea is wet! News at | 11. | foogazi wrote: | Why not check your Venmo account instead of email ? | dawnerd wrote: | Literally the first thing I did when selling stuff on ebay. | Would verify that payment actually went through. I did have a | couple people message saying they 'paid'. I'm sure it works | just enough to be worth the trouble. | wildrhythms wrote: | 100% | | We are so focused on "simplifying" everything... to what end? | Maybe it's actually good for people to learn the thing they're | using to some degree rather than hiding the functionality away | because it "looks cleaner". | jeff_vader wrote: | My father avoided using any kind of computers until he was 68. | The we got him an Android tablet. Not the best choice to be | honest, but it's too late, he got used to it. He's now 77 and he | still cannot distinguish what's part of Android OS, what's part | of some application or what's just a web page in browser. All the | popups confuse and overwhelm him. Somehow he still manages to | take some photos of his plants and watches ton of YouTube. It's | both fascinating and terrifying to watch him use his tablet. I do | sometimes wonder how he'd adapt to UI like Windows 95/XP Classic. | readingnews wrote: | I agree with this. The UI is moving more and more towards not | showing URLs, emails, addresses, and other things that might clue | a non-savvy user into being duped. But who do we complain to? | They (FAANG, etc) are doing this to increase usage and profits, | right? | lynndotpy wrote: | This reminds me of the baffling decision when Windows started | hiding file extensions by default. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-08 23:00 UTC)