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Dark patterns: past, present, and future

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Arvind Narayanan,

Arunesh Mathur,

Marshini Chetty,

Mihir KshirsagarAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 63, Issue 9

Pages 42 - 47

https://doi.org/10.1145/3397884

Published: 21 August 2020 Publication History

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The evolution of tricky user interfaces.

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Dark patterns: past, present, and future
1. Hardware
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2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web interfaces

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DOI:10.1145/3419453

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