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 ...

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 ...

The study found that 52 out of 53 apps have at least one deceptive pattern. It found that health-tech apps were found to have the highest usage of dark patterns, followed by those in the travel ...

Beware dark patterns for they lead you into temptation ... depending on the type and context of use, and now the Indian government is working on similar legislation. Mr H opens the website of ...

We suspect that Flipkart, one of India’s largest e-commerce platforms, seems to be using “dark patterns” in its App when a customer wants to pay through EMI. Before we proceed with how a ...