Dark patterns: how online companies strive to keep your money and data when you try to leave
theconversation.com
Why it’s so much easier to sign up to a service than it is to leave.

A study on online companies employing dark patterns. Dark patterns are clever tricks built into apps and websites to encourage you to do things you may not necessarily want to do, for the gain of the companies.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    For anyone wondering, yes Terms and Conditions are a dark pattern when they’re mapped directly onto the enter key.