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		cemregr on July 13, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dark Patterns: dirty tricks designers use to make ... Walgreens and most supermarkets I shop at default to debit now when I swipe my card, and ask my PIN without prompting "debit or credit?". To use credit, you have to press "cancel", which wouldn't be the first thing to come to your mind.

Groxx on July 13, 2010 [–]

Or "enter" or "OK" or "clear" or the credit button or some unlabeled button with a post-it next to it saying "credit"... and all on machines made by the same company.

It's insanity.

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