1,841 instances of dark patterns on ecommerce sites, in the categories of sneaking, urgency, misdirection, social proof, scarcity, obstruction, and forced action. You can browse this overview, read the paper, or look at the raw data.
We conducted a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of dark patterns.
Some days I want to get a job at Apple just so I can peruse my own early Radar bugs. They probably go back to to when I was 18 (Iโm 44 now). A part of my youth I canโt revisit.
@aaronpk If my schedule this weekend had allowed it, I would have loved to attend #IndieWebSummit remotely.
Will the keynotes/sessions be recorded? There's a couple of them I'd be really sad to miss out on!