Have you ever noticed how online accounts are incredibly easy to sign up for, but can be hair-pullingly difficult to close? Sometimes the Close Account option is right where you’d think it would be, ...

How Online Retailers Trick You: Can You Guess the Worst Offender? Research into deceptive designs (aka ‘dark patterns’) reveals that top online retailers—particularly the one we use the most—are using ...

Have you signed up to an online service for a free trial, decided it isn’t for you, but still ended up paying for it months – or even years – later? Or tried cancelling a subscription, and found ...

Hyderabad: LocalCircles studies have shown that 95 per cent of companies in India with online platforms deploy dark patterns ...

Dark patterns are design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce and/or deceive website visitors into making unintended and possibly harmful choices. Dark patterns can be found in many ...

Indian online shoppers lose ₹25,000-₹28,000 crore annually to deceptive practices, as revealed in a recent study.

Not everyone has the resources or knowledge to 'see' dark patterns in online services that trick or manipulate users into doing things they don't necessarily want to do Users of online sites and ...