" #OneDrive uses #AI to recognize faces in your photos... You can only turn off this setting 3 times a year” via Harry Brignull at @deceptive.design
Deceptive Patterns
@deceptive.design
Exposing Deceptive Patterns (aka "Dark Patterns") since 2010. Run by Harry Brignull (founder), Mark Leiser, Christiana Santos & Kosha Doshi. #dpsky
Harry Brignull（翻訳：髙瀨みどり、監修：長谷川敦士） – ダークパターン 人を欺くデザインの手口と対策 bnn.co.jp/products/978...
ダークパターン 人を欺くデザインの手口と対策
株式会社ビー・エヌ・エヌは2002年に設立した出版社です。デザインする人を増やすこと、作る人を支援することを目指して出版活動を展開しています。
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@deceptive.design Here's one for your "catalogue of deception/manipulation manual" etc. This is from a hotel check-in process. The marketing opt-out is hidden behind a "click here" link. And there was me believing that links were meant for navigation 🤔.
this shit's on purpose and i hate it so much WHAT STATE IS YOUR TOGGLE IN MOTHER FUCKER? #ux #darkpatterns
35 data brokers employed #DarkPatterns to discourage #Californians from exercising privacy rights. Hid legally required web pages from Google—so we can’t find them. Senator unhappy, accuses firms of “requiring people to navigate byzantine labyrinths.” In #SBBlogwatch, we join her trisyllabic diss.
Act Surprised: Data Brokers Seem to Scoff at California Privacy Act
Privacy Rights Crushed by robots.txt: Sen. Hassan is on the warpath.
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Slow, sarcastic clap for rac.co.uk . Classic roach motel move: can’t cancel the service without calling them. So much self-serve is possible online, but not that. Almost like you can never leave… cc/ @deceptive.design
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Jo-ho-ho@jobrodie.bsky.social · last yr.An example of @deceptive.design - the X at the top right of Flight Radar doesn't close the panel but instead takes you to a page where you can register for a premium account. Panel cannot be dismissed (I used uBlock Origin browser add on to select it so it can no longer load) www.flightradar24.com
Very happy to share the Table of Contents of my new book, "Dark Patterns, Deceptive Design, and the Law: AI's Hidden Influence on Our Digital Experience" www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dark-patt...
Coming soon. Well done @stribs.bsky.social! rosenfeldmedia.com/books/design...
Design for Privacy | Rosenfeld Media
Living and working online means grappling with the impact of a dizzying array of online privacy issues. Service providers offer opaque explanations for why they need our data and what they’re doing wi...
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I really wish companies would ditch the easy subscribe HARD unsubscribe pattern... #darkpattern @deceptive.design whisky-me.com its 2025 guys come on, stop trying to screw us!
“Despite using neutral language that specifically did not mention integrating deceptive design patterns, every single AI-generated web page contained at least one such pattern, with an average of five per page.” www.fastcompany.com/91233844/cha...
ChatGPT was tasked with designing a website. The result was as manipulative as you'd expect
In a new study, researchers found that ChatGPT creates websites full of deceptive patterns.
fastcompany.com
Hey folks. I’ve been featured in this news article about a #darkpattern in Urban Company (an Indian Startup). Do give it a read if this is interesting for you 🙏 www.ndtv.com/feature/beng...
Bengaluru Man Criticises Urban Company For 'Dark Subscription' Tactics, App Designer Responds
In his post, he accused Urban Company's app of using
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#Darkpattern from #Samsung trying to get us to agree to their thieving bullshit in their latest #privacypolicy update. The "I have read and agree" checkbox is not necessary, but it's made to look like it is... #bigtech #tracking #surveillancecapitalism At […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
TikTok violated the #DSA - again. We found: 🚨 48 NEW murky accounts impersonating Călin Georgescu 🚨 49 political ads, violating TikTok's own policy They were easy to find. So why wasn’t TikTok proactive⁉️ Details 👉 bit.ly/3OEOUza @stiftungmercator.bsky.social
1/ Hey @hf.co NO. You do not have my consent to use my content and personal data to train your AI and ML models. If you believe my consent isn't needed, then I otherwise object. Also, have you deleted the data you obtained from BlueSky huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Windows 11 is such ass why is my work PC giving me pop up suggestions to buy Black Ops 6
1/ I wonder how many folks joining BlueSky are aware of “The AT Protocol, which Bluesky is built on, is designed to support public conversations” .. bsky.social/about/blog/5... Is scraping their data to train AI acceptable? What rights apply? People want to be social without being ‘public’
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Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2y agoNew from 404 Media: Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped www.404media.co/someone-made...
The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes #workersurveillance I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]
Great writeup of Veronica Krauss and team’s work on #darkpatterns and #generativeai by @stokel.bsky.social! Such a timely paper and good to see it reaching a broader audience. www.fastcompany.com/91233844/cha...
ChatGPT was tasked with designing a website. The result was as manipulative as you'd expect
In a new study, researchers found that ChatGPT creates websites full of deceptive patterns.
fastcompany.com
The Meta thing is interesting because users have been vocally opposed to all these tweaks along the way & they have defended each one w/ metrics+engagement. But when there’s competition, people are moving. It’s a reminder that engagement ≠ enjoyment. Wonder what experts have to say about this ⬇️
Keith Edwards@keithedwards.bsky.social · 2y agoHahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha
FYI we will be deleting the content from this Twitter account at some point in the next few months, and moving everything that's worth keeping onto It's a shame given the enormous follower numbers we've gained over the years - but times have changed.
@deceptivepatterns.bsky.social Hi! Found after buying a railcard from Railcard.co.uk. Attention grabbed by "£20.87 cash back" and "Get your cashback" button. Small print at the bottom hints (but doesn't really make it clear) that you are signing up to have £18.00 pm removed from your card account.
FTC workshop 25 Feb 2025. ‘The Attention Economy: Monopolizing Kids’ Time Online’ “to examine the use of design features on digital platforms aimed at keeping kids, including teens, online longer and coming back more frequently.” www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
The Attention Economy: Monopolizing Kids’ Time Online
The Federal Trade Commission will hold a virtual workshop on February 25, 2025, to examine the use of design features on digital platforms aimed at keeping kids, including teens, online longer and
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“LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool -- they just auto opted everyone in.” - Rachel Tobac (Sep 18, 2024) x.com/RachelTobac/...
