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Dark pattern

A dark pattern (also known as a "deceptive design pattern") is a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such as buying overpriced insurance with their purchase or signing up for recurring bills. User experience designer Harry Brignull coined the neologism on 28 July 2010 with the registration of darkpatterns.org…

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Dark pattern

Nodes53
Edges52
Triples46
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037736
Components1

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related to Research · 11
Dark pattern → April, Deceived, Design, Facebook, Forbrukerrådet, Google, In, It, Microsoft, Norwegian Consumer Council, Research
related to United States · 10
Dark pattern → Act, April, Bait-and-switch, Deb Fischer, Deceptive Experiences To Online, DETOUR, Mark Warner, On, US, Users Reduction
related to European Union · 7
Dark pattern → According, Article, European Data Protection Board, European Union, GDPR, In, This
related to External links · 7
Dark pattern → Consumer ReportsDark, Deceptive Design, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Practice Lab, Purdue University, Tip, UX Pedagogy
related to Misdirection · 5
Dark pattern → Common, Confusing, For, Since, The
related to Roach motel · 5
Dark pattern → Donald Trump's WinRed, Examples, For, Several, United States

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dark patterns users user deceptive data information pattern design privacy used act protection consumer intuit free would eu european opt-out

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sharing sensitive data to increase revenueinstance ofsample code and settings often have privacy-unfriendly defaults laced with dark patterns to nudge developers’ decisions towards privacy-unfriendly options0.80text
Dark patternrelated to European UnionIn0.60section
Dark patternrelated to European UnionEuropean Union0.60section
Dark patternrelated to European UnionGDPR0.60section
Dark patternrelated to European UnionThis0.60section
Dark patternrelated to European UnionAccording0.60section
Dark patternrelated to European UnionEuropean Data Protection Board0.60section
Dark patternrelated to European UnionArticle0.60section
Dark patternrelated to External linksDeceptive Design0.60section
Dark patternrelated to External linksTip0.60section
Dark patternrelated to External linksElectronic Frontier Foundation0.60section
Dark patternrelated to External linksConsumer ReportsDark0.60section

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