“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 ...

On September 15, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a report on dark patterns (the, “Report”) that identifies the types of misleading and manipulative interface practices that the ...

Experts are warning consumers about shady online business practices that the Federal Trade Commission and tech insiders refer to as “dark patterns.” “By their very nature, dark patterns are subtle, ...

You can’t find an easy way to cancel an unwanted subscription, so you let it continue for another month — telling yourself you’ll try again later. You feel rushed into an online purchase you regret, ...

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 special tricks used in the interface of applications and websites that make you do things that you don’t really want to. For example, when you land on a website and have to sign up ...

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 ...

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 ...