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Dark Patterns
The FTC has declared war on dark patterns, the use of design to manipulate people into taking actions against their interests. It settled with Publishers Clearinghouse and sued Amazon for what the FTC says are efforts to track and trap people into recurring Amazon Prime subscriptions. The line between optimizations and dark patterns is fuzzy, not least in the media industry.
- Troy Young's People vs Algorithms newsletter
- Brian Morrissey's The Rebooting newsletter
- Alex Schleifer's Universal Entities
- Follow Alex, Brian and Troy on Twitter
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By Troy Young, Brian Morrissey, Alex Schleifer
4.6
4949 ratings
The FTC has declared war on dark patterns, the use of design to manipulate people into taking actions against their interests. It settled with Publishers Clearinghouse and sued Amazon for what the FTC says are efforts to track and trap people into recurring Amazon Prime subscriptions. The line between optimizations and dark patterns is fuzzy, not least in the media industry.
- Troy Young's People vs Algorithms newsletter
- Brian Morrissey's The Rebooting newsletter
- Alex Schleifer's Universal Entities
- Follow Alex, Brian and Troy on Twitter
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