former globe employee here.<p>i think &quot;dark patterns&quot; is a little strong. most of what the globe&#x27;s doing here is just standard on-boarding marketing stuff IMHO. not stating on the article page itself that the 99c price is temporary hardly seems like a major sin when that fact is clearly communicated on the landing page.<p>Looking carefully through all the things the blogger is claiming, I think the strongest point he makes is that the globe doesn&#x27;t make it clear that the &quot;real&quot; price doubles after 1 year.<p>I am already a subscriber so I couldn&#x27;t make it through the flow to see exactly how it&#x27;s communicated, but if that&#x27;s not clear, obviously it should be and that&#x27;s not a minor point.<p>I emailed the globe&#x27;s editor, brian mcgrory, who is definitely a no-BS kind of guy, telling him lots of boston people are checking  this out this morning (since it&#x27;s on the HP) and he should respond :)