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04/18/2022

What is deceptive design?

Deceptive design patterns (also known as "dark patterns") are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something. The purpose of this site is to spread awareness and to shame companies that use these practices.

How does deceptive design work?

When you use websites and apps, you don’t read every word on every page - you skim read and make assumptions. If a company wants to trick you into doing something, they can take advantage of this by making a page look like it is saying one thing when it is in fact saying another. You can defend yourself by learning about deceptive design on this site.

Who uses deceptive design?

We've collected about 400 examples in our hall of shame. The most commonly complained about companies are Google, Facebook, Amazon and LinkedIn.

https://www.deceptive.design/?fbclid=IwAR2YtLGH0Lb0CRE8nXESs1T77oQLkDeRim9AqVm5bgM2l4nZVXLb6xuitDA

Deceptive design practices (also known as "dark patterns") are tricks used in websites and apps that make you buy or sign up for things that you didn't mean to. The purpose of this site is to spread awareness and to shame companies that use them.

04/15/2022

Whewwww

The authors of the Elementor Website Builder plugin for WordPress have just released version 3.6.3 to address a critical remote code ex*****on flaw that may impact as many as 500,000 websites.

03/07/2022

Web3 has proven to be an absolute disaster, over $8.4 billion stolen from everyday people and the grifts are just getting started. Please save your money, this isn’t what you think it is.

web3isgoinggreat.com

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03/01/2022

lool

02/26/2022

We’re past this, truly.

02/20/2022

I promise I’m working☁️

02/19/2022

AI-synthesized faces are indistinguishable from real faces and more trustworthy. The average rating for synthetic faces was 7.7% MORE trustworthy than the average rating for real faces.

Paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/119/8/e2120481119

02/19/2022

Handwritten thank-you cards, hats, and sticker packs for each of our phenomenal clients going out Monday morning.

02/17/2022

Everything is temporary

Apple introduced a privacy feature to stop apps from tracking you on iPhone, and now Google is doing the same with Android.