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Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019)
Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We conducted a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of…
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- HN comments
- 194
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Security & PrivacyWeb & Frontend2021
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 2021 | Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019) by pseudolus | 389 | 118 |
| Jun 25, 2019 | Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites by mxfh | 228 | 76 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 6 Hacker News comments by 6 different people, from Jul 2019 to Dec 2023.
Most recent:
- arendtio · Dec 2, 2023
- DonHopkins · Nov 11, 2021
- 19h · Mar 7, 2021
- surround · Mar 7, 2021
- 3np · Jan 30, 2021
- recenttechnews · Jul 17, 2019
