silverbax@lemmy.world to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Want to know how online retailers like Amazon manipulate you? A list of all of the Dark Patterns that can be - and are -used to deceive shoppers.

www.deceptive.design

4

7

Want to know how online retailers like Amazon manipulate you? A list of all of the Dark Patterns that can be - and are -used to deceive shoppers.

www.deceptive.design

silverbax@lemmy.world to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

4

Deceptive Patterns - Home

www.deceptive.design

Deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something.

Chat

Bobby D
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
1·
1 year ago
Agreed, these have been around as long as there were salespeople, just adapted to the Internet.

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

4.06K users / day
9.34K users / week
17K users / month
34.6K users / 6 months
790 local subscribers
59.6K subscribers
12.6K Posts
562K Comments
Modlog