Dark patterns are design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce and/or deceive website visitors into making unintended and possibly harmful choices. Dark patterns can be found in many ...

Dark patterns are web design features designed to trick users into sharing their data or spend more money. Watch out for tricks like hard-to-cancel subscriptions, hidden costs in the checkout process ...

There is a new term for online annoyances: Dark Patterns. They are tricks in websites and apps that make users click on things they didn't intend to. There is a new term for online annoyances: Dark ...

Do you ever find yourself wasting time trying to close a pushy pop-up? Or discover that you’re subscribed to something you don’t remember signing up for? These things happen to all of us when website ...

We may have reached peak subscription. Services for any type of product, from meal kits to streaming services to makeup, now entail a subscription-based model where you’re charged on a monthly basis.

“Dark patterns are unfair trade practice and a cause of concern,” said Rohit Kumar Singh, secretary of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs Singh added that such patterns are cause of concern for ...

If you’ve ever found yourself struggling to cancel an online subscription, or to deactivate an account on a website, you may have fallen prey to ‘dark patterns’. The Advertising Standards Authority ...

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 ...