{"id":866403,"date":"2024-10-15T10:42:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T05:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=866403"},"modified":"2024-10-15T10:42:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T05:12:24","slug":"bengaluru-man-gets-upset-over-swiggy-instamart-for-adding-free-tomatoes-to-his-cart-calls-it-dark-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/15\/bengaluru-man-gets-upset-over-swiggy-instamart-for-adding-free-tomatoes-to-his-cart-calls-it-dark-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru man gets upset over Swiggy Instamart for adding free tomatoes to his cart; calls it \u2018dark pattern\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bengaluru man\u2019s recent screenshot is making rounds on the internet. The man seems to be upset that his instamart order had included a free 500 gram of tomatoes, with no option to remove them. In a screenshot shared on X (formerly Twitter), he calls out Swiggy for a \u2018very bad design,\u2019 labelling it a \u201cdark pattern.\u201d A dark pattern refers to manipulative tricks that give users no control over their actions on an app or a website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bengaluru man\u2019s recent screenshot is making rounds on the internet. The man seems to be upset that his instamart order had included a free 500 gram of tomatoes, with no option to remove them. In a screenshot shared on X (formerly Twitter), he calls out Swiggy for a \u2018very bad design,\u2019 labelling it a \u201cdark pattern.\u201d A dark pattern refers to manipulative tricks that give users no control over their actions on an app or a website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866403","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}