lawsuits FTC: Amazon tricked users into signing up for Prime and made it too hard to cancel Rob Beschizza

Games Dark patterns in games Rob Beschizza

ux California bans "dark pattern" designs intended to trick website users Rob Beschizza

dark patterns Comprehensive tour of dark patterns at shopping websites Rob Beschizza

travel Onetravel sucks at dark patterns Cory Doctorow

censorship Tiktok's internal policies are both weird and terrible Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets This is your smartphone on feminism Cory Doctorow

dark patterns DoNotPay's latest service will auto-cancel your free trials before the billing period starts Cory Doctorow

privacy Firefox is finally fixing its broken screenshot tool Cory Doctorow

Business Kill sticky headers: a bookmarklet to get rid of the web's static blobs Cory Doctorow

amazon Amazon has Reasons not to let that negative review go up (Updated) Rob Beschizza

dark patterns Norwegian government report outlines how Facebook and others trick users into giving up their privacy Rob Beschizza

facebook Timely video about "dark patterns," the tricks websites use to manipulate you Rob Beschizza

facebook A tour of the manipulative, creepy bullshit Facebook pulls to stop you deleting your account Rob Beschizza

web theory When should web designers use modal overlays? Cory Doctorow

art Intricate mandalas created by Volt Agapeyev Andrea James

happy mutants Dark Patterns: why do companies pursue strategies that make their customers regret doing business? Cory Doctorow

Technology Meet the Enshittificator, a man whose job is making your apps worse Ellsworth Toohey

movies WikiFlix is like Netflix for public domain films, with no ads, no logins, and no data harvesting Ellsworth Toohey

tools This free tool helps scheduling across time zones Ellsworth Toohey