{"id":5600,"date":"2026-06-10T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:08:02","slug":"dark-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dark-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Dark Patterns Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian consumers are losing an estimated \u20b925,000 crore to \u20b928,000 crore annually due to deceptive interface designs, commonly known as dark patterns, across online marketplaces, according to a recent report. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Dark Patterns<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dark patterns, also known as <\/span><b>deceptive patterns<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, are <\/span><b>deliberate design tactics <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that <\/span><b>trick online users<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> into <\/span><b>making choices<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that <\/span><b>aren\u2019t always in their best interest.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are designed to <\/span><b>mislead users to do something they originally did not intend<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or want to do.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The term was coined by Harry Brignull in 2010.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At their core, dark patterns <\/span><b>exploit cognitive biases. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They <\/span><b>leverage the way our brains process information<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to nudge us toward specific decisions, often against our best interests.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dark patterns take <\/span><b>many forms,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and different sources may categorize them in various ways.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Each is designed<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to manipulate users into <\/span><b>making choices that benefit the company <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rather than the user.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These deceptive design tactics can <\/span><b>pop up across websites, forms, emails, and apps.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Central Consumer Protection Authority notified the Guidelines <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for Prevention and Regulation of Dark Patterns in 2023 and <\/span><b>specified 13 dark patterns<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, namely<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>False urgency, Basket Sneaking, Confirm shaming, forced action, Subscription trap, Interface<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Interference, <\/span><b>Bait and switch, Drip Pricing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Disguised Advertisements and Nagging, Trick Wording, Saas Billing and Rogue Malwares.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, <\/span><b>drip pricing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is when <\/span><b>extra costs appear after the user has started the purchase process.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>False urgency<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Dark patterns sometimes invent <\/span><b>deadlines or stock shortages,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sometimes known as <\/span><b>scarcity cues<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to <\/span><b>exploit a fear of missing out,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> pressuring users into quick decisions without taking the time to think through the purchase.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Basket Sneaking<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: This is when<\/span><b> extra products <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or services are <\/span><b>added to a user\u2019s shopping cart without their explicit consent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Subscription Trap: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This dark pattern is the common case of making it substantially <\/span><b>harder to cancel a subscription<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> than it was to start the subscription in the first place.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/indian-online-buyers-losing-up-to-28000-crore-annually-to-dark-patterns-hidden-charges-report\/article71082091.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Patterns are deliberate design tactics that trick online users into making choices that aren\u2019t always in their best interest. 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