Don’t be fooled by dark patterns!
Marketplace All-in-One
Marketplace
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Host Yanely Espinal talks with professor Jasmine McNealy about “dark patterns” that manipulate us online: what they are, where to look for them and how to protect yourself.
Think you’re financially inclined? Dig deeper into dark patterns:
- Learn about all things dark pattern from Deceptive Patterns
- Listen to the role of dark patterns in e-commerce at Marketplace
- Read about how laws and regulations can limit dark patterns on Vox
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Parents and Teens! |
| 0:01.4 | Financially Enclined is presented in partnership with Greenlight, |
| 0:04.3 | the debit card and money app for teens. |
| 0:06.4 | In today's episode, we're discussing something that's happened to all of us, |
| 0:10.4 | getting tricked by a company to spend more. |
| 0:13.0 | It's frustrating. |
| 0:15.0 | A good way to protect teens from falling for those manipulations |
| 0:18.0 | and encourage them to make wise spending choices they won't regret |
| 0:21.0 | is with green light, where parents can set store-level spend |
| 0:24.4 | controls in the app and approve every transaction. |
| 0:27.9 | Get $10 when you sign up for Green Light today at Greenlight. |
| 0:31.2 | Com slash Inclined. |
| 0:32.3 | That's Green Light. That's Greenlight.com slash inclined. That's Greenlight dot com slash I N. |
| 0:34.3 | L I N. E. D. Oh, What's up everybody? I'm Janelle Espinal and welcome to financially inclined from Marketplace. |
| 1:02.0 | We're sharing money lessons for living life. Welcome to Financially Inclined for Marketplace. |
| 1:03.0 | We're sharing money lessons for living life your own way. |
| 1:07.1 | This episode is all about dark patterns. |
| 1:10.6 | The ways websites are subtly designed to trick you into spending money. |
| 1:15.0 | It's important to know how to spot dark patterns because we all run into them |
| 1:20.0 | when we're using websites, apps, or online services. |
| 1:25.0 | Professor Jasmine McNeali is here to help us break down the basics. |
| 1:30.0 | She's a tech and data researcher at the University of Florida, |
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