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Key takeaways from Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained

How design can manipulate and coerce you into doing what websites want.

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The big pop-up window urging you to sign up for a website’s newsletter with a big red “Sign Me Up” button, while the opt-out button is much smaller and passive-aggressively implies that anyone who clicks is a bad person who doesn’t care about saving money or staying informed
“Regulation works,” Brignull said. “It can really turn the internet into somewhere that’s nice to be instead of like a complete Wild West environment. And we need it.”
Companies whose revenue relies heavily on user data don’t want to make it easy for those users to refuse to provide it.
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