{"id":7080,"date":"2018-06-13T01:55:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T08:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2018-06-13T08:03:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T15:03:54","slug":"wtf-is-with-this-dark-pattern-in-app-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/13\/wtf-is-with-this-dark-pattern-in-app-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF is with this dark pattern in iOS app trials?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three of the free-to-download iOS apps I\u2019ve tried in the last few days have led with a nasty trap for the less-than-vigilant: If you even want to try this app, <em>agree up front<\/em> to an expensive (like, orders of magnitude more than a usual app), <em>ongoing<\/em> subscription that <em>quietly and perpetually renews<\/em> until you figure out how to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>This upends the normal trial relationship of \u201c<em>If &amp; only if<\/em> you like this offering enough to buy\/subscribe, take action to do so; otherwise you\u2019re off the hook.\u201d Screw that: these apps are getting summarily shitcanned.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile I\u2019m amazed that Apple allows this practice to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/NewImage-11.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"840\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three of the free-to-download iOS apps I\u2019ve tried in the last few days have led with a nasty trap for the less-than-vigilant: If you even want to try this app, agree up front to an expensive (like, orders of magnitude more than a usual app), ongoing subscription that quietly and perpetually renews until you figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7082,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions\/7082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}