TheBitCast

Every App Is Built To Trick You. Here Are The 12 Tricks

Podcast: Earnest Mann - Earnest Perspectives · Earnest Mann

Opublikowano: 2026-09-28

Twelve design tricks that companies build into apps, websites and checkouts to get you to spend money you never meant to spend. Not theory, and not a lecture. Every one of them has a name, they're all here, and once you know the names you'll spot them coming before they cost you a dime. We go through bait and switch, confirm shaming, disguised ads, forced continuity, friend spam, hidden costs, misdirection, price comparison prevention, privacy zuckering, the roach motel, sneak into basket, and trick questions. Plus what India's consumer authority is now fining major platforms over, and the four...