News Summary

• The “Log Out” button has been systematically hunted down, minimized, and buried alive.
• This isn’t bad UI design.
• It’s a corporate hostage situation.
• In the early days of the web, logging out was standard hygiene.
• Today, product teams view a user logging out not as a valid user preference, but as a catastrophic metrics failure.
• “Frictionless” UX is a One-Way Street.
• If you’re tired of being trapped inside your apps, here is how you take back control of your digital borders.