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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. Open at source

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Companies whose revenue relies heavily on user data don’t want to make it easy for those users to refuse to provide it.

“I think the internet has made it easier to industrialize the way in which we persuade and, in turn, manipulate and deceive each other,”

It’s hard to know what’s an actionable deceptive act or practice when there’s no privacy law in the first place.

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