MediaNama’s Take: The latest LocalCircles audit makes one thing clear: that dark patterns continue to dominate India’s e-commerce landscape. LocalCircles, a citizen engagement and policy feedback ...

Dark patterns manipulate consumer choices in e-commerce. Regulators in India are clamping down on deceptive design practices. Improved design ethics are crucial for fostering consumer trust online.

Turns out, there is a dark art of web design. Inventory trackers, countdown clocks and fake reviews are rampant on e-commerce sites, and all are used to influence how consumers buy. But their contents ...

Digital revenue penetration tiers show concentrated distribution patterns and progression across three measurement periods.

New Delhi: The Central Government is cracking down on e-commerce entities using "dark patterns", deceptive design tactics that manipulate consumers into unintended purchases or subscriptions. Speaking ...

The advertising launch follows recent findings highlighting the continued use of dark patterns across digital platforms, even ...

Twenty-six major e-commerce platforms, including Zomato and Flipkart, have voluntarily declared their sites free of manipulative 'dark patterns'. This significant move by the Department of Consumer ...

The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025, could force e-commerce, ride-hailing and food delivery apps to rethink the way they design their interfaces. For years, platforms have engaged ...

The Web Foundation‘s Tech Policy Design Lab is working on an interesting-looking project to counter deceptive design — aka dark patterns* — with the goal of producing a portfolio of UX and UI ...

As screens get bigger, technology gets better and networks get faster, we've seen online booking patterns continue to evolve at a rapid pace. And according to Google, more than one-third of global ...