Dark patterns, also known as deceptive design or deceptive patterns, are essentially tricks. Websites and apps use dark patterns to manipulate users into making decisions they wouldn’t have otherwise ...

PRINCETON, N.J. - Many online shopping sites use our psychology against us by subverting user decision-making through design choices called “dark patterns,” and oftentimes, this causes shoppers to ...

You’re on the checkout page of a website when something appears in your shopping basket that you didn’t put there — say, you’re buying a laptop, but insurance sneaks in, too, unless you uncheck a box.