[HN Gopher] Bad UI is causing people to get scammed
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       Bad UI is causing people to get scammed
        
       Author : samemail88
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2022-07-08 20:55 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | einpoklum wrote:
       | Bad UI allows for scamming? Amazing. Also, sea is wet! News at
       | 11.
        
       | foogazi wrote:
       | Why not check your Venmo account instead of email ?
        
         | dawnerd wrote:
         | Literally the first thing I did when selling stuff on ebay.
         | Would verify that payment actually went through. I did have a
         | couple people message saying they 'paid'. I'm sure it works
         | just enough to be worth the trouble.
        
       | wildrhythms wrote:
       | 100%
       | 
       | We are so focused on "simplifying" everything... to what end?
       | Maybe it's actually good for people to learn the thing they're
       | using to some degree rather than hiding the functionality away
       | because it "looks cleaner".
        
       | jeff_vader wrote:
       | My father avoided using any kind of computers until he was 68.
       | The we got him an Android tablet. Not the best choice to be
       | honest, but it's too late, he got used to it. He's now 77 and he
       | still cannot distinguish what's part of Android OS, what's part
       | of some application or what's just a web page in browser. All the
       | popups confuse and overwhelm him. Somehow he still manages to
       | take some photos of his plants and watches ton of YouTube. It's
       | both fascinating and terrifying to watch him use his tablet. I do
       | sometimes wonder how he'd adapt to UI like Windows 95/XP Classic.
        
       | readingnews wrote:
       | I agree with this. The UI is moving more and more towards not
       | showing URLs, emails, addresses, and other things that might clue
       | a non-savvy user into being duped. But who do we complain to?
       | They (FAANG, etc) are doing this to increase usage and profits,
       | right?
        
         | lynndotpy wrote:
         | This reminds me of the baffling decision when Windows started
         | hiding file extensions by default.
        
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