Dark Patterns in Web User Interfaces: Toward an Incentive-Based Policy Approach Supplementing Legal Provisions
Abstract EU and national legislators in the EU continue to generate new regulations, striving to eliminate unfair design patterns in e-commerce, social media and other website user interfaces. This article briefly summarises relevant legal provisions and shows why, despite them, dark design patterns...
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| description | Abstract EU and national legislators in the EU continue to generate new regulations, striving to eliminate unfair design patterns in e-commerce, social media and other website user interfaces. This article briefly summarises relevant legal provisions and shows why, despite them, dark design patterns are still frequently found. It concludes that a move beyond a narrow legal dark pattern counter-strategy is required by setting incentives for website providers to implement bright interface design features voluntarily. In Germany, Government support has not been adequate and therefore requires improvement. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-52af3d1124fa4fe8bb0724cfa4f1028d2025-02-02T02:41:50ZdeuSciendoWirtschaftsdienst1613-978X2022-09-01102968869310.1007/s10273-022-3270-9Dark Patterns in Web User Interfaces: Toward an Incentive-Based Policy Approach Supplementing Legal ProvisionsTorsten J. Gerpott0Mercator School of Management, LS Unternehmens- und Technologieplanung, Universität Duisburg-EssenAbstract EU and national legislators in the EU continue to generate new regulations, striving to eliminate unfair design patterns in e-commerce, social media and other website user interfaces. This article briefly summarises relevant legal provisions and shows why, despite them, dark design patterns are still frequently found. It concludes that a move beyond a narrow legal dark pattern counter-strategy is required by setting incentives for website providers to implement bright interface design features voluntarily. In Germany, Government support has not been adequate and therefore requires improvement.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10273-022-3270-9 |
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| title | Dark Patterns in Web User Interfaces: Toward an Incentive-Based Policy Approach Supplementing Legal Provisions |
| title_full | Dark Patterns in Web User Interfaces: Toward an Incentive-Based Policy Approach Supplementing Legal Provisions |
| title_fullStr | Dark Patterns in Web User Interfaces: Toward an Incentive-Based Policy Approach Supplementing Legal Provisions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dark Patterns in Web User Interfaces: Toward an Incentive-Based Policy Approach Supplementing Legal Provisions |
| title_short | Dark Patterns in Web User Interfaces: Toward an Incentive-Based Policy Approach Supplementing Legal Provisions |
| title_sort | dark patterns in web user interfaces toward an incentive based policy approach supplementing legal provisions |
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