Dark Patterns Across a Sample of 11,000 Shopping Websites ⇥ webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu

I recently booked some hotel rooms using a few different travel websites and I’m pretty sure I encountered nearly all of these. Dark patterns are shockingly unethical. They are deceptive, crass, and borderline fraudulent in the case of patterns that sneak unwanted items into a shopper’s cart.