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Paco Hope #resist

@lolgop I support this idea and I will probably sign the petition (I’m a TM customer. Still mulling over whether I want to support Verizon or AT&T instead).

I support #TeslaTakedown and participated in one of their protests. But look at how scummy this petition is.

First I notice that they inform me that I “may receive” email from a bunch of groups. That’s weird because it implies uncertainty.

Then I notice this microscopic, grey-on-grey text that says “edit subscription preferences”. I haven’t signed in to this site, so how do I even have any preferences to edit? I tap it and it expands to an already-opted-in list of ELEVEN different orgs who will all feel entitled to spam me because they will point to this as the time I affirmatively opted in to receive all their emails.

How many petition signers even see that, much less click it? This is a #DarkPattern and this is really slimy. The ONLY way to be slimier would be to opt me in without even telling me.

The word “preferences” is plural, implying I have more than one preference. In practice my choice is to accept email from all 11 or none. It’s a single preference, hidden from view as much as possible.

Screenshot of the petition web site. Beneath the button labeled “add your name” is this text: “You may receive email updates from #Tesla Takedown, Stop The Money Pipeline, 18 Million Rising, Oil & Gas Action Network (OGAN), Troublemakers Community, Action Lenter on Race and the Economy, New York Communities for Chenge (NYCC), 350 Seattle, People's Tech Project, and Working Families Party and Working Families Power, the spo sors of this petition.”
Screenshot of the same web site after I tap the “edit subscription preferences” text. Now that same list of eleven orgs appears with a tickbox saying “opt in to updates from” this huge list.
#DarkPatterns
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Karl Fredrik 🦊

Today's moment of frustration: navigating the dark patterns that lead you to enter into debt through buying commodities.

I think we should ban lending small amounts, like anything <€1 000.

Want to pay off a new laptop over a few years? Sure, makes sense!

Want to pay your weekly groceries through ten weekly installments? Why on earth is that even an option...

It's just payday loans with extra steps.

#enshittification#debt#darkPatterns
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Piratenpartij Delft

Delft Fringe Festival, best leuk, behave als je een kaartje probeert te kopen zonder cookies en spyware te accepteren. :blobangery: Je kunt sommige cookies afwijzen, als je de verstopte menu optie weet te vinden, maar dat moet je dan bij elke stap in het bestelproces opnieuw doen. :blobfacepalm:

Hier de indrukwekkende lijst van advertentie bedrijven die met je mee kijkt, waaronder #Google en #Facebook: themarkup.org/blacklight?url=h

screenshot van NoScript van de Delft Fringe festival bestel webpagina die laat zien dat er jave script van deze partijen draaien: …delftfringefestival.nl …adform.net …adyen.com …bootstrapcdn.com …clarity.ms …equalweb.com …facebook.com …facebook.net …google-analytics.com …google.com …googlesyndication.com …googletagmanager.com …gstatic.com …mailerlite.com …mlcdn.com …stager.co …stager.nl
#Delft#DelftFringe#cookies
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Ted Curran M. Ed.

I suspect that #parentalcontrols are intentionally designed to make it harder for #parents to take any actions that aren't in the tech company's business interests.

I can’t tell if it’s #BadBadUX because it’s deprioritized internally, “tacked on” at the end, or if it’s deliberate #DarkPatterns to confuse and exasperate parents into complying with their monetization goals.

My experience in #PlayStation, #Roblox, #Android, #iOS, #GooglePlay is so bad, it couldn’t be by accident.

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Paco Hope #resist

Here's a nice #darkpattern from #AmazonQDeveloper. Installing it on my #debian laptop and it pops up this GUI. Now, grey text on white background is a completely pedestrian dark pattern.

The thing that is new for me, that isn't obvious from a single screenshot, is that the "skip" grey text doesn't appear at all for like 10-20 seconds. When you first see this dialog box, there's no 'skip' button. This might lead you to believe it isn't possible to skip. I tend to read things that pop up. And so while I was reading the skip button appeared.

Thanks #darkpatterns

A dialog box that says "Install the GNOME shell extension. It has some grey text on white describing what it does. Therre's a big black button labeled "install" and below that is some small grey text on white that says 'skip'.
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Pax

Tried to delete my Airbnb account. Saw a "Deactivate" button and thought - wow, guess I was wrong about corporations going out of their way to hold on to their property (your data).

But nope, turns out deletion is a separate process.

Airbnb: "Just contact support to reactivate."
Support: "Please login."
Support: "Sorry, you can’t login, this account is deactivated." 🤷‍♂️

Love a good dark pattern.

#airbnb#dataprivacy#userexperience
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Electronic Frontiers Australia

Regulator and lawmakers around the world are finally targeting organisations that use #darkpatterns to manipulate consumers into using products or services.

Chandni Gupta, Deputy CEO of the Consumer Policy Research Centre (and friend of EFA) has wrapped up some fantastic research on this issue. Chandni met with scores of regulators, enforcement agencies, consumer advocacy groups and choice architecture experts in the US, UK, Singapore and India about dark patterns and how they regulate them.

Case in point is Amazon's Project Iliad, a process designed to make it harder for customers to cancel their Prime membership. How? By making the process so needlessly complex that many users would give up and abandon the form.

Chandni writes that Australia is falling behind on protecting citizens from dark patterns. Legislating consumer potections against dark patterns is vital to protect us from manipulation of our behaviour and choices online.

Read the CPRC report: cprc.org.au/report/made-to-man

CPRCMade to Manipulate - CPRCDeceptive and manipulative design features—known as dark patterns—are embedded into websites and apps to influence our choices, often not in our best interests. From subscription traps that make cancelling nearly impossible to pre-ticked boxes that share more of our data, these subtle yet sinister practices may appear as mild annoyances individually, but their cumulative effect is costing Australians financially, compromising privacy, and degrading online experiences.
#amazon#iliad#digitalrights
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nemo™ 🇺🇦

Die Verbraucherminister fordern mehr Schutz vor #DarkPatterns & gezielter Werbung! 📢 Sie sehen Handlungsbedarf bei Online-Marktplätzen & sozialen Netzwerken, die psychologische Tricks nutzen. Der Digital Fairness Act könnte helfen. Mehr dazu hier: heise.de/news/Verbraucherminis #Verbraucherschutz #DSA 🛡️ #newz

Kurzlink: heise.de/-10398656

heise online · Verbraucherminister machen gegen Dark Patterns und gezielte Werbung mobilBy Stefan Krempl
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Weizenbaum-Institut

New #wjds paper published:

Author Xin Ye explores how online platforms use manipulative, attention-grabbing tactics that undermine user autonomy. Current #EU laws fall short - this study offers 3 key policy fixes.

Read more: doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.3.2

The paper is part of a special issue on "Well-being in the Digital World"

@dougaparry #DarkPatterns #AddictiveDesign #TechEthics #DigitalRights #PlatformRegulation #GDPR #DSA #research #law #socialscience #computerscience

Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, vol 5, issue 3. Xin Ye, Dark Patterns and Addictive Designs
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