“When it comes to the digital sphere, we want to make it fair. It’s shocking that on average 60% of websites did not comply with basic consumer rules between 2007 and 2019…. This is why we want to ...

Ah, the dubious honor of having an entire dark pattern named after you. More than five years after GDPR went into effect, regulators in Europe finally exerted enough pressure on Meta that it will soon ...

Turns out, there is a dark art of web design. Inventory trackers, countdown clocks and fake reviews are rampant on e-commerce sites, and all are used to influence how consumers buy. But their contents ...

PRINCETON, N.J. - Many online shopping sites use our psychology against us by subverting user decision-making through design choices called “dark patterns,” and oftentimes, this causes shoppers to ...

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 ...

For some time now, dark patterns have been quite the trending topic for both marketers and privacy professionals. Regulators have frequently railed against dark patterns that purport to manipulate ...

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; ...