Masters of Zango: Click OK to cancel +

Imagine the horror of regular users having this nicely designed modal dialog shoved to their face upon arriving to a website:

Those fortunate enough to know better go for the cancel button immediately.
But Zango takes care of them! Upon hitting cancel, the unsuspecting masses are presented with this lovely confirm dialog box:

The confirm dialog states:

Are you sure you want to cancel? Zango content on this and other websites is free if you install Zango programs. You can easily uninstall Zango via Add/Remove Programs. Click “OK” to cancel, or click “Cancel” to continue the installation and get free access to Zango premium content and websites.

Brilliant.

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3 Responses to “Masters of Zango: Click OK to cancel”

  1. seven | August 31st, 2008 at 9:47 am +

    This is brilliant indeed.

    I pressed OK just out of curiosity, and my ESET Security started blocking things and alerting me that something f*cked up is going on. :)

  2. njava | August 31st, 2008 at 11:22 am +

    What he said. Brilliant!

    Now, if you forget about how wrong this is for a second – I presume that the guy who figured this out must be tremendeously proud of himself. Hell, he probably got a big thumbs up from his boss aswell. What a mindset!

  3. zytzagoo | August 31st, 2008 at 12:13 pm +

    Indeed. Using up all the rules from usability studies all over the web, for all the wrong reasons :)