{"id":974202,"date":"2025-11-15T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974202"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:31:26","slug":"taxi-apps-manipulate-users-in-bengaluru-through-hidden-charges-deceptive-design-localcircles-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/15\/taxi-apps-manipulate-users-in-bengaluru-through-hidden-charges-deceptive-design-localcircles-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi apps manipulate users in Bengaluru through hidden charges, deceptive design: &#8216;LocalCircles&#8217; survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A recent survey by LocalCircles, a community social media platform, with over 15,000 responses in Bengaluru, has revealed that most users of app-based taxi platforms frequently encounter manipulative design features, known as dark patterns. <\/p>\n<p>The pattern influences their decisions and leads to unfair charges or inconvenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A recent survey by LocalCircles, a community social media platform, with over 15,000 responses in Bengaluru, has revealed that most users of app-based taxi platforms frequently encounter manipulative design features, known as dark patterns. The pattern influences their decisions and leads to unfair charges or inconvenience.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974202","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=974202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}