> What you really mean is we have the choice between implementing a dark pattern or finding another job and letting someone else implement it.

You incorrectly reduced the available options.

Here are a couple more options:

- convince your peers and supervisors why using dark patterns is trash

- just don't implement dark patterns and rather focus on useful features and bugfixes

- be loud about your distain of such request for dark pattern implementation and tweet, blog, write about it.

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