Dark Patterns at Scale¶
Mathur, A., Acar, G., Friedman, M. J., Lucherini, E., Mayer, J., Chetty, M., & Narayanan, A. (2019). Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites. ACM, 1-32.
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3 citations across 3 artifacts.
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Mechanisms¶
- Consequence Design Review
- Its clearest job is keeping a loop on the right side of the line between a legitimate incentive and a dark pattern — a design that steers people toward outcomes serving the designer rather than themselves.
This sourceDefines dark patterns as interface choices that coerce, steer, or deceive users into unintended and potentially harmful decisions.
- Its clearest job is keeping a loop on the right side of the line between a legitimate incentive and a dark pattern — a design that steers people toward outcomes serving the designer rather than themselves.
- Context Reinsertion Prompt
- It is the natural counter to interfaces built from dark patterns, where the harm lives in what the design conceals rather than in raw intensity.
This sourceShows that dark-pattern harm can operate through deception and the hiding, disguising, or delaying of information relevant to user decisions.
- It is the natural counter to interfaces built from dark patterns, where the harm lives in what the design conceals rather than in raw intensity.
- Misleading-Cue Red Team
- It catches dark patterns, the interface tricks Harry Brignull named, before they reach users or draw a regulator's attention.
This sourceDocuments dark patterns in interfaces and identifies Harry Brignull as the originator of the term.
- It catches dark patterns, the interface tricks Harry Brignull named, before they reach users or draw a regulator's attention.
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