If those are dark patterns, then most websites I visit violate that

That's the disturbing part, isn't it - it's completely normalized to the point that most of the sites you're gonna pass through on a given day will be doing it to some degree.

It's like if in literally every room you entered on a given day, there was one of those street peddlers who accost you to make you sign a subscription to something or other. Sure you can just firmly tell him no a couple of times and he'll back off, but going through your day like that sucks!

Yes? That's the headline and the opening paragraph...

I read that as specifically about marketing subscriptions, I mean in general

So much of everything marketing and sales is unwanted.

I'm unclear what your comment is implying. Is it okay then, because websites do it? Is it not okay, so why didn't the paper also include websites? I just not tracking...