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Inside the interfaces designed to trick you
A dark pattern is a user interface carefully crafted to trick users into doing things they might not otherwise do, such as buying insurance with their purchase or signing up for recurring bills. Normally when you think of “bad design,” you think of the creator as being sloppy or lazy — but without ill intent. Dark patterns, on the other hand, are not mistakes. They're carefully crafted with a solid understanding of human psychology, and they do not have the user’s interests in mind.
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I remember thinking to myself how bad the settings interface is / was in iOS. I didn't think it would be used as an example to a report like this.
The worst culprit is torrent sites. So many different download links it's headache inducing.