Dark patterns, also known as deceptive design or deceptive patterns, are essentially tricks. Websites and apps use dark patterns to manipulate users into making decisions they wouldn’t have otherwise ...

The consumer watchdog, headed by Chief Commissioner Nidhi Khare and Commissioner Anupam Mishra, levied a penalty of Rs 5 lakh ...

Do you think you are always making a voluntary decision when clicking on something online? In reality, that isn't always the ...

Learn what dark patterns are, how websites use deceptive design tricks to influence users, and simple ways to avoid hidden ...

Since October of last year, Microsoft has been sending customers of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 desktop pop-ups, asking them to update to Windows 10 for free. About a month ago, users who had resisted ...

In 2016, dark patterns were wielded as weapons against democracy. To echo pretty much everyone on the planet, 2016 was a shit year. It was full of good people dying and bad people succeeding. But more ...

Some business practices on the internet may not be against the law, but they undermine or manipulate consumer choice. Legal advocates have coined a new name for this practice: dark patterns. Difficult ...

If you’ve ever had to call to cancel a subscription you signed up for online in seconds, uncheck a preselected agreement to receive ads in the mail or been tricked into upgrading to a premium economy ...

The term “dark patterns” may be new to you, but the experience certainly isn’t. You encounter dark patterns online every day: the confusing questions that get you to opt into invasive data collection; ...

“Dark patterns” have increasingly been the focus of legislative and regulatory scrutiny. Yet the phrase is never used in business. No business designs a website, mobile app, or business process with ...

Recently I wrote about the proliferation of dark patterns and tried to give readers a sense of just how widespread these practices are. But it is not just the pervasiveness of dark patterns that has ...