2022/12/23

“Dark Pattern Trash:” Ben Grosser Chides—and Cancels—Twitter’s Newly Launched View Count Feature

American software artist Ben Grosser updates his Demetricator (2017-) browser extension to hide Twitter’s newly launched view count feature. “View counts, like all of Twitter’s visible metrics, are engagement-inducing dark pattern trash,” Grosser rails against interface elements that are known to amp up polarization and thus harm. Demetricator 1.5.5 is available on Chrome and Firefox and removes all Twitter metrics from the platform.

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