I just showed a join page to my 22 year old son. I asked him if he were buying how he would go about it.
He looked at the sign up page that had one pre-checked box and one unchecked box.
He looked the page over for a minute.
“I thought you wouldn’t have to buy porn”? he said
“Would you please throw me a bone here and pretend your buying it” I said
He grabbed the mouse and unchecked the pre-checked box and checked the one that had been unchecked (it was less expensive)
“I would probably get this one but not both”
I asked him if he thought the pre-checked box was deceptive
“No I can see it right there . . .
but if it were unchecked I probably wouldn’t have noticed either of them”
Let me add he was not coached and
the boxes were in full view without scrolling at all.
My take! There is a line between “suggestive selling” and “sneaky selling”