this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[–] teft@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Free is never free. They’re getting some value from you whether it be information or actual money.

[–] _bug0ut@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Right, for example, your email address so they can harass the hell out of you (if you stumble onto the site and see the "FREE SAMPLE PACKS" link). Or the free packs are just partial and they're supposed to entice you to buy the whole pack (where the actual good samples are). Or the packs lead you to their not-free VSTs (which I'm also not terribly interested in, but I'm not their target for that stuff).