A screenshot of OneDrive's 'privacy and permissions' configuration menu that reads "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos... You can only turn off this setting 3 times a year”
" #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.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 🤔.
A modal for managing cookies on Mastercard's website. It's got a series of tabs for navigating to different cookie types, and the toggle button used to turn them on and off is ambiguously colored so you can't tell if they're enabled or disabled.
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.
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
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...
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...
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...
#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
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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
We are @deceptive.design on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/deceptive.design
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...
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’
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...
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 ⬇️
Not sure yet, tbh!
Sorry, didn’t want to pay for the hosting costs anymore so it’s gone…
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.
