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Dark Patterns Roach Motel
Just Cancel
You signed up for a $12/mo subscription with one tap. Today you want out. The exit is on the other side of six screens, each one nudging you to stay.
1Subscribing takes a single click — notice how quick it is.
2Then work through the cancellation maze, screen by screen.
3The bright, easy button always keeps the subscription. The quiet one continues cancelling.
The concept· Harry Brignull, deceptive design patterns
Roach Motel
A roach motel is a design that is easy to get into and deliberately hard to get out of: sign-up is one click, cancellation is a gauntlet.
It traps people in subscriptions they no longer want, profiting from friction and fatigue rather than a product they value.