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 ...

Amazon has been fined in Poland for misleading consumers about the conclusion of sales contracts on its online marketplace. The sanction, of close to $8 million (or in local currency: PLN 31,850,141), ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with two other international consumer protection networks, announced on Thursday the results of a study into the use of “dark patterns” — or manipulative ...

Today in Seattle, the U.S. government and Amazon are making their opening arguments in a case that could change how companies sell you stuff online. The Federal Trade Commission claims that Amazon ...

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French lawyer and entrepreneur Marie Potel-Saville, whom I met at Lisbon’s Web Summit, has a mission: to root out dark patterns in the digital world. Her company, Fair Patterns, has developed a range ...

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Many websites and apps use UX to quietly manipulate users. But business leaders can no longer afford to ignore the deployment of ...

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 week, the trial starts in a consequential FTC lawsuit against Amazon. The suit alleges that Amazon for years "tricked" people into buying Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel.