Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder und Jugendliche?
Social Media erst ab 16 Jahre! Das fordert Schleswig-Holsteins Ministerpräsident Daniel Günther. Mittlerweile hat seine ehemalige Kabinettskollegin, Bundesbildungsministerin Karin Prien, eine Arbeitsgruppe eingesetzt, die sich dieses Thema annehmen soll. Zeit, die Argumente zu sortieren.
Gesamten Beitrag anschauen > https://kaffeeringe.de/2025/07/24/social-media-verbot-fuer-kinder-und-jugendliche/
Well that's disappointing. I've been a big fan of BrowserStack for years now, but today I was greeted by a dark-pattern-laden interstitial ad when logging in. Boo.
Dark pattern from the Temu app: it checks whether notifications for one channel are turned off and then starts to push them into a newly created channel with another generic name.
I discovered an anti-corpo lifehack and tbh I think its a pretty great one!
So you know those annoying "sign up for our free trial" sites that basically "forget" to notify you that you need to cancel and try to get you for like 10,000 years of subscriptions?
I found a way to counter.
I use a lot of cash purchased "nonreloadable" credit cards bc I'm trying to counterpunch with privacy, okay? Last night I was signing up for a free trial of a thing and I didn't have a disposable card avail that would cover the "post trial" cost.
So... I used one of the many leftover cards I have with like, less than five dollars on them for a "two hundred after trial" thing.
Aaaaaaand it worked.
So basically:
- I used a throwaway email
- I used a 'paid in cash' card to secure my trial
- There's literally no way they can really charge me unless I decide I want to continue.
Obv this only works if they take gift card style credit cards (the ones I use only work for US based payment processing annoyingly) and you need to be able to like, GET one but yeah.
Fuck corpo scams!
Having fun booking a train ticket with SNCF Connect. Holy dark pattern, Batman!
The text says "Do not receive offers or discounts from SNCF Connect to travel in France or in Europe."
Do I toggle or not?
#BadDesign #DarkPatterns
@paulasimoes @ointersexo
#darkpatterns everywhere :-(
How can this be legal?
PAREIDOLIA CONCLUDES!
DC Comics released Preview and Covers of Batman: Dark Patterns #8 comic
Preview: https://comixnow.com/2025/07/03/dc-preview-batman-dark-patterns-8-comic-a25/
@lolgop I support this idea and I will probably sign the petition (I’m a TM customer. Still mulling over whether I want to support Verizon or AT&T instead).
I support #TeslaTakedown and participated in one of their protests. But look at how scummy this petition is.
First I notice that they inform me that I “may receive” email from a bunch of groups. That’s weird because it implies uncertainty.
Then I notice this microscopic, grey-on-grey text that says “edit subscription preferences”. I haven’t signed in to this site, so how do I even have any preferences to edit? I tap it and it expands to an already-opted-in list of ELEVEN different orgs who will all feel entitled to spam me because they will point to this as the time I affirmatively opted in to receive all their emails.
How many petition signers even see that, much less click it? This is a #DarkPattern and this is really slimy. The ONLY way to be slimier would be to opt me in without even telling me.
The word “preferences” is plural, implying I have more than one preference. In practice my choice is to accept email from all 11 or none. It’s a single preference, hidden from view as much as possible.
I logged back into #pinterest recently after reading about how it's gaining popularity again. Check out how the push and email notification toggles are all hidden behind accordions 
#darkpattern #darkpatterns #DeceptivePatterns #deceptivepattern
Today's moment of frustration: navigating the dark patterns that lead you to enter into debt through buying commodities.
I think we should ban lending small amounts, like anything <€1 000.
Want to pay off a new laptop over a few years? Sure, makes sense!
Want to pay your weekly groceries through ten weekly installments? Why on earth is that even an option...
It's just payday loans with extra steps.
I suspect that #parentalcontrols are intentionally designed to make it harder for #parents to take any actions that aren't in the tech company's business interests.
I can’t tell if it’s #BadBadUX because it’s deprioritized internally, “tacked on” at the end, or if it’s deliberate #DarkPatterns to confuse and exasperate parents into complying with their monetization goals.
My experience in #PlayStation, #Roblox, #Android, #iOS, #GooglePlay is so bad, it couldn’t be by accident.
With #DigitalFairnessAct in the works, we urge @EU_Commission to avoid regulatory overlap. 
Many DFA issues (e.g. #DarkPatterns, #InfluencerMarketing) are already covered by EU laws like #DSA & #GDPR.
It's about better enforcement, not more rules.
https://ccianet.org/library/joint-industry-statement-on-the-digital-fairness-act/
I managed to get a video of this dark pattern. 12 seconds in you can finally see the faint "skip" button pop in. First I have to click the 'What's happening under the hood?" link. Then I have to leave the explanation on the screen for a while, then skip appears.
Here's a nice #darkpattern from #AmazonQDeveloper. Installing it on my #debian laptop and it pops up this GUI. Now, grey text on white background is a completely pedestrian dark pattern.
The thing that is new for me, that isn't obvious from a single screenshot, is that the "skip" grey text doesn't appear at all for like 10-20 seconds. When you first see this dialog box, there's no 'skip' button. This might lead you to believe it isn't possible to skip. I tend to read things that pop up. And so while I was reading the skip button appeared.
Thanks #darkpatterns
Tried to delete my Airbnb account. Saw a "Deactivate" button and thought - wow, guess I was wrong about corporations going out of their way to hold on to their property (your data).
But nope, turns out deletion is a separate process.
Airbnb: "Just contact support to reactivate."
Support: "Please login."
Support: "Sorry, you can’t login, this account is deactivated." 
Love a good dark pattern.
Regulator and lawmakers around the world are finally targeting organisations that use #darkpatterns to manipulate consumers into using products or services.
Chandni Gupta, Deputy CEO of the Consumer Policy Research Centre (and friend of EFA) has wrapped up some fantastic research on this issue. Chandni met with scores of regulators, enforcement agencies, consumer advocacy groups and choice architecture experts in the US, UK, Singapore and India about dark patterns and how they regulate them.
Case in point is Amazon's Project Iliad, a process designed to make it harder for customers to cancel their Prime membership. How? By making the process so needlessly complex that many users would give up and abandon the form.
Chandni writes that Australia is falling behind on protecting citizens from dark patterns. Legislating consumer potections against dark patterns is vital to protect us from manipulation of our behaviour and choices online.
Read the CPRC report: https://cprc.org.au/report/made-to-manipulate-report
Die Verbraucherminister fordern mehr Schutz vor #DarkPatterns & gezielter Werbung! 
Sie sehen Handlungsbedarf bei Online-Marktplätzen & sozialen Netzwerken, die psychologische Tricks nutzen. Der Digital Fairness Act könnte helfen. Mehr dazu hier: https://www.heise.de/news/Verbraucherminister-machen-gegen-Dark-Patterns-und-gezielte-Werbung-mobil-10398656.html #Verbraucherschutz #DSA 
#newz
Kurzlink: https://heise.de/-10398656
How I hate Microsoft's #DarkPatterns.
Now, if you make the mistake of opening an attachment in Outlook 365, there is absolutely no way to download/save it. You can print it, but there's very little other functionality left. You have to come out of the attachment and use the down arrow on the item in the email to find Download in the menu. The copy of the item now shown at the top of the email chain has no such link and just opens the viewer.
Clarification:
If the "attachment" is a OneDrive cloud document, there is a Download link in the viewer.
If the document is an actual attachment, I only get the deeply unwanted Save to OneDrive option.
In other words, Microsoft's sole aim is to get all my documents under whatever rummaging rights they reserve for OneDrive.
