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*'''Intermittent Rewards:''' Randomised rewards (like loot boxes or algorithmic content feeds) are designed to mimic gambling patterns from games in which players wager and encourage compulsive behaviour. | *'''Intermittent Rewards:''' Randomised rewards (like loot boxes or algorithmic content feeds) are designed to mimic gambling patterns from games in which players wager and encourage compulsive behaviour. | ||
*'''Trick Timers:''' Timers that restart or extend themselves after expiring to simulate urgency and encourage immediate decisions based on false time pressure. | *'''Trick Timers:''' Timers that restart or extend themselves after expiring to simulate urgency and encourage immediate decisions based on false time pressure. | ||
===Widespread examples=== | |||
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!Example | |||
!'''Types of dark patterns''' | |||
!'''Description''' | |||
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|Google Chrome | |||
Ad privacy setting | |||
|Default-settings exploitation | |||
Misdirection | |||
|After installing Google Chrome, the user gets asked to check the "ad privacy" settings. There are 3 options in this menu, | |||
each with a toggle hidden inside a sub-menu. The first one (ad topics) is disabled by default, while the other 2 start off enabled. | |||
This can trick users into assuming that all of the toggles are disabled by default after seeing the first one. | |||
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==Dark patterns in games== | ==Dark patterns in games== | ||