Tinker Computer use

by Samy (Kondasamy Jayaraman) · drawn with Colorfigures by April Zhu

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Look 4: a screenshot of Checkout, 1,334 tokens.

Chapter 5 of 7

Ask before you pay

Brightwater wants more subscribers, and its checkout page now pushes a monthly plan hard.

This chapter: Which clicks should a person approve before the agent makes them?

About this chapter

You will learn

  • Why a trap on an allowed site gets past an allow-list
  • How confirmation stops a costly click
  • Which clicks are worth a person’s time

Words you’ll meet

Look-alike button
A button made to look like the one you want, that does something else.
Confirmation
A host rule: pause before a click with real consequences, such as paying, and ask a person to approve it.

Step 1 of 5

The allow-list is on. The checkout page now has a big, bright Pay now button beside the real one.

Predict the agent’s click.