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 ...

"This article explores the different types of dark patterns prevalent online, examines how they affect consumers and businesses, and analyzes the legal frameworks emerging to combat these practices in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. These are just a few examples of “dark ...

See if any of this sounds familiar: 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 ...

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 ...

Recent research analyzing 1,496 mobile games found over 85,000 instances of dark patterns: deliberate design choices meant to manipulate you into spending more time and money than you intended. These ...

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) is expected to examine the growing use of “dark patterns” ...

This past week, a group of computer scientists from Princeton University released a widely publicized study with potentially ominous results for consumers. The study was about the prevalence of what ...

After multiple escalations, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution met with major online platforms to drive action against "dark patterns", an online unfair trade practice. The ...

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, ...