News Is the web full of nasty tricks?

Ever signed up for something online and then found it very difficult to unsubscribe? Then you've been to a roach motel - one of many web design tricks employed by some firms to drum up more trade.

Microsoft provoked outrage recently when it was revealed that closing a pop-up box reminding Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10 was treated as consent to the upgrade, if a common setting was in place.

It was described by one frustrated tech reporter as a "nasty trick ", as many people would expect closing the box to both remove it and prevent any related activity.

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