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It's a poor example, it probably should have been something like a default option or a potentially destructive one. In the wild, the "dark pattern" mode I see more often is when the option isn't even a button or presented alongside the default choice. (e.g., "DO THING" is a button, but "skip" or "cancel" is elsewhere on the page entirely as a small link or something.)



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