Reveal all discounts and visit site - ethical?
Much has been said about discount voucher code site myvouchercodes.co.uk. Look here and here to see what I mean. Anyway I won’t go into all of that stuff right now, I want to see if things improve first. However I do want to ask a question about ethics…
On the above mentioned site they list a whole load of online retailers, and each has their own page within the site. After a brief description of the site you get this graphic:
Now, regardless of whether the site has any available discount codes or not, the user HAS to press this button to find out. And when you do click on this button a new window opens displaying the retailers site and of course a cookie is dropped on the users PC. In a lot of cases, there are no discount available, but you don’t know this until you press the button and of course drop a cookie.
So is this a forced click? Is it ethical? Basically the way that the whole site is set up is that if a user wants to see what discount codes are available (if any) then the user HAS to click on a button and therefore a cookie is dropped. What do you think? Ethical or just clever marketing?
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Original post by Kieron