Salvador Rivas

"I am Definitely Manipulated, Even When I am Aware of it. It’s Ridiculous!" - Dark Patterns from the End-User Perspective

Online services pervasively employ manipulative designs (i.e., dark patterns) to influence users to purchase goods and subscriptions, spend more time on-site, or mindlessly accept the harvesting of their personal data. To protect users from the lure of such designs, we asked: are users aware of the presence of dark pa…