{"id":1013494,"date":"2026-06-10T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013494"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:13:20","slug":"online-buyers-losing-up-to-rs-28000-cr-annually-to-dark-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/10\/online-buyers-losing-up-to-rs-28000-cr-annually-to-dark-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Online buyers losing up to Rs 28,000 cr annually to dark patterns\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Dark Patterns in India\u2019s Online Marketplaces\u2019 report, released by market research firm Datum Intelligence on Tuesday, said 88 per cent of the country\u2019s 304 million online buyers lose approximately Rs 78 to Rs 87 per month each to hidden charges, forced add-ons, drip pricing, false urgency rules and subscription traps. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cExisting regulatory interventions have so far had limited success in curbing deceptive digital practices that continue to impact millions of consumers,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Dark Patterns in India\u2019s Online Marketplaces\u2019 report, released by market research firm Datum Intelligence on Tuesday, said 88 per cent of the country\u2019s 304 million online buyers lose approximately Rs 78 to Rs 87 per month each to hidden charges, forced add-ons, drip pricing, false urgency rules and subscription traps. \u201cExisting regulatory interventions have so far had limited success in curbing deceptive digital practices that continue to impact millions of consumers,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013513,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013494\/revisions\/1013513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}