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Want to know how online retailers like Amazon manipulate you? A list of all of the Dark Patterns that can be - and are -used to deceive shoppers. (www.deceptive.design)

submitted 1 year ago by silverbax to c/technology

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[–] Dick_Justice 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I like the effort, but I feel like trying so hard to coin a hip new buzz phrase (Dark Patterns) instead of calling it what it is (deceptive marketing practices) is counterproductive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure they did not come up with it

https://darkpatterns.org/

[–] Dick_Justice 1 points 1 year ago

Right on. I've just see it thrown around a bit lately, and I think it just obfuscates the issue.

[–] bighi 2 points 1 year ago

Dark pattern is not a new term.

And “deceptive marketing practices” is too broad. Dark pattern is a subset of that. So the title is being specific, which is something to praise, not criticize.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed, these have been around as long as there were salespeople, just adapted to the Internet.