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 ...

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 ...

Subscriptions that are impossible to cancel, hidden fees added at the checkout, and constant offers of discounts in exchange for your personal information - dark patterns are the internet traps ...

The European Union accused X, formerly known as Twitter, of using deceptive "dark patterns" to mislead users. According to the EU's preliminary findings, these practices violate the bloc's new social ...