Majority of popular Indian apps across sectors employ unethical design practices known as "dark patterns" that manipulate users into making unintended choices, a recent report by ASCI (Advertising ...

Several well-known Indian platforms, including Kuku, Stage, and Seekho, have come under increasing scrutiny for reportedly ...

The Dark Patterns Buster Hackathon 2023 is being conducted in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi and the goal for participants is to design and prototype app or ...

Research by Parallel, presented at a webinar by the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), highlights this widespread issue in the Indian app industry. Dark patterns are design elements ...

Almost all the top Indian apps are deploying deceptive design ... on consumer behaviour because of such practices. The deceptive patterns discovered include privacy deception, interface ...

The Centre is working to address the issue of design strategies known as "dark patterns" that have come to dominate the digital consumer experience. Union Minister for Consumer Affairs ...