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Arguably, the entire purpose of this popup is to be incredibly disruptive to the UX - it's trying to stop you using the service.



Good point, but that is OK. The end user still gets the advantage (so does the TfL, but that doesn't concern the user).

I feel that so many tech companies consider their end-users to be little more than cattle herds (the real product is the company), and they simply don't think about stuff like this.

This kind of usability is a basic, fundamental mindset, that, in my opinion, seems to be severely lacking, in today's tech industry.


Arguably indeed. Depends what is considered the service in this case. I would argue that the service is “using the public transport “, and it is not “using machine for buying paper tickets”.


So then rephrase their point to "it's trying to stop you using <this way to pay for> the service"




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