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How Some Brands Get Users’ Long-Term Commitment with a Monthly Charge

There’s a trend which takes the use of products from companies such as Adobe and Microsoft from single-purchase goods owned by the consumer to monthly subscriptions. Unlike most dark patterns, this one does not trick users into agreeing with a system of recurring payments, but simply encourages them

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Beware of Harvesting Users’ Information with Forced Registration

If a company knows you really well, they have more of an opportunity to make money. Time was, the second you registered with any website, whether it was an online shop or a social platform, they could send you advertisements or even sell your information to other companies. Much legislation exists n

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How to Get Users’ Agreement with the Opt-in/Opt-out Dance

The dark side is quite resourceful in sneaking things past your attention, thereby ensuring your engagement in their commercial activities. To do this, they rely on our inherent laziness, which prevents us from reading every single piece of text on our way towards completing a task. Phrased carefull

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How to Approach Prioritized Advertisements

Large companies such as Google and Facebook are experts at showing the right advertisements to the right people. At first glance, this may seem like a pretty nifty feature that actually helps you avoid ads that have nothing to do with who you are or want to be. But it’s actually a dark pattern desig

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Be Mindful of the Implications of Implied Consent

Implied consent is something some designers use with the best intentions possible when they don’t want to disturb the users’ flow in accomplishing a task. However, when you deliberately hide information, hoping your users will overlook it, it can be a problem. Let’s look at some striking exampl

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How Designers Sneak Products into Users’ Shopping Baskets

Like a naughty kid who wants the Oreo cookies you just told him he couldn’t have, dark pattern designers are masters at slipping things into your shopping basket without your knowledge. Here, we will show you how they do that, and get away with it. We will give you some examples that behave in ways

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