As the engineer being forced to implement patterns like this that I felt were shady, I can almost promise you that some &quot;growth hacker&quot; or &quot;subscriber acquisition consultant&quot; or &quot;optimization consultant&quot; comes in with case study stats or runs an A&#x2F;B tool to see various effects. They&#x27;re likely able to show several percent increase for each of these dark patterns, then management has real dollars to have to turn down. Then I complain that we&#x27;re violating trust which can&#x27;t be easily or immediately quantified, and the response is &quot;eh, I see the button, a user will find it if they want it.&quot;<p>After raising the flag too many times without being heard, I finally quit. But is there a more scalable way to protest &#x2F; stop this?<p>What about a browser extension that warns when you try to sign up for a service that you can only cancel by phone?