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Deceptive Design: Cookie Consent and Manipulative Patterns

September 11, 2025
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Thomas Mejtoft, Erik Frängsmyr, Ulrik Söderström, Ole Norberg
This paper discusses how deceptive design patterns, or "dark patterns," are used on websites, specifically concerning cookie consent. The researchers analyzed 50 home cooking recipe websites and found that even among those compliant with GDPR, a majority still employed misdirection and sneak into basket dark patterns to influence user choices.
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