{"id":935347,"date":"2025-05-31T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T01:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=935347"},"modified":"2025-05-31T07:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T02:17:27","slug":"dark-patterns-explained-how-e-commerce-websites-trick-you-and-how-to-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/31\/dark-patterns-explained-how-e-commerce-websites-trick-you-and-how-to-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Patterns explained: How e-commerce websites trick you and how to fight back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Food and Consumer Affairs, Pralhad Joshi, urged all leading online retail platforms to comply with the government\u2019s rules regarding \u2018dark patterns\u2019. He warned that failure to adhere to these norms would prompt necessary measures to safeguard consumer welfare. <\/p>\n<p>The minister stated that online retail platforms have been instructed to carry out internal evaluations to identify any use of \u2018dark patterns\u2019\u2014a term referring to manipulative design techniques that trick users into taking actions they did not intend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Food and Consumer Affairs, Pralhad Joshi, urged all leading online retail platforms to comply with the government\u2019s rules regarding \u2018dark patterns\u2019. He warned that failure to adhere to these norms would prompt necessary measures to safeguard consumer welfare. The minister stated that online retail platforms have been instructed to carry out internal evaluations to identify any use of \u2018dark patterns\u2019\u2014a term referring to manipulative design techniques that trick users into taking actions they did not intend.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935347","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=935347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}