Identifying deception patterns on the web

@sidnya’s nice post Media Influence On...Speech and Debate led me to find a Dark Pattern on simplypsychology.org (and tweet about it too) in their Accept Cookies dialog:

Given this UI design most people that take the effort to click ‘Cookie Details’ will still be in danger of then clicking ‘Continue with Recommended Cookies’. This button is most prominent.

What is needed to go with ‘Necessary’ cookies is clicking the ‘Save’ button - that is easily overlooked - instead. Even after accepting ‘Necessary’ cookies only Privacy Badger indicates that there are seven 3rd-party trackers in the site. Besides Google Analytics some of these are directly involved in data collection for advertising.

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