Dark Patterns

Baroni, Luiz Adolpho; Puska, Alisson; Salgado, Luciana Cardoso de Castro; Pereira, Roberto

doi:10.1145/3472301.3484336

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“…Our work was limited to detecting deceptive ads and, therefore, may not generalize to detecting other kinds of dark patterns, such as privacy zuckering, roach motel, confirmshaming, and bait-and-switch [65][66][67]; detecting these dark patterns will likely require novel algorithms. Another limitation was that our overall algorithm was evaluated on a small sample of 20 web pages, constrained by the tedious process of manual annotation.…”

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Detecting Deceptive Dark-Pattern Web Advertisements for Blind Screen-Reader Users

Kodandaram,

Sunkara,

Jayarathna

et al. 2023

J. Imaging

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Advertisements have become commonplace on modern websites. While ads are typically designed for visual consumption, it is unclear how they affect blind users who interact with the ads using a screen reader. Existing research studies on non-visual web interaction predominantly focus on general web browsing; the specific impact of extraneous ad content on blind users’ experience remains largely unexplored. To fill this gap, we conducted an interview study with 18 blind participants; we found that blind users are often deceived by ads that contextually blend in with the surrounding web page content. While ad blockers can address this problem via a blanket filtering operation, many websites are increasingly denying access if an ad blocker is active. Moreover, ad blockers often do not filter out internal ads injected by the websites themselves. Therefore, we devised an algorithm to automatically identify contextually deceptive ads on a web page. Specifically, we built a detection model that leverages a multi-modal combination of handcrafted and automatically extracted features to determine if a particular ad is contextually deceptive. Evaluations of the model on a representative test dataset and ‘in-the-wild’ random websites yielded F1 scores of 0.86 and 0.88, respectively.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Detecting Deceptive Dark-Pattern Web Advertisements for Blind Screen-Reader Users

Kodandaram,

Sunkara,

Jayarathna

et al. 2023

J. Imaging

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Unveiling Digital Manipulation and Persuasion in e-Commerce: A Systematic Literature Review of Dark Patterns and Digital Nudging

Singh,

Vishvakarma,

Kumar

2024

Journal of Internet Commerce

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User oppression in human-computer interaction: a dialectical-existential perspective

Gonzatto

Amstel

2022

AJIM

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PurposeThis research theorizes the condition of human beings reduced to being users (and only users) in human-computer interaction (HCI), a condition that favors them becoming objects or targets of commercial dark patterns, racialized profiling algorithms, generalized surveillance, gendered interfaces and heteromation.Design/methodology/approachThe reconceptualization of the users’ condition is done by confronting HCI theories on users with a dialectical-existential perspective over human ontology. The research is presented as a conceptual paper that includes analyzing and revising those theories to develop a conceptual framework for the user oppression in HCI.FindingsMost HCI theories contribute to the user oppression with explicit or implicit ontological statements that denies their becoming-more or the possibility of users developing their handiness to the full human potential. Put together, these statements constitute an ideology called userism.Social implicationsHCI needs to acknowledge its role in structuring oppression not just in sexism, racism, classism and ableism, but also the specific relation that pertains to HCI: userism. Similar to other fields, acknowledging oppression is the first step toward liberating from oppression.Originality/valueThe user is an existential condition for HCI theories, yet few theories can explain in depth how this condition affects human development. From the dialectical-existential perspective, the user condition can be dehumanizing. Computers may intensify existing oppressions through esthetic interactions but these interactions can be subverted for liberation.

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Dark Patterns

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Detecting Deceptive Dark-Pattern Web Advertisements for Blind Screen-Reader Users

Detecting Deceptive Dark-Pattern Web Advertisements for Blind Screen-Reader Users

Unveiling Digital Manipulation and Persuasion in e-Commerce: A Systematic Literature Review of Dark Patterns and Digital Nudging

User oppression in human-computer interaction: a dialectical-existential perspective

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