How websites trick you into saying “yes”
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🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:36.0 | revisit some of my favorite Rico daily episodes this week, and today we've |
| 0:40.4 | got a tricky one. You've probably never heard of dark patterns, but you've |
| 0:44.8 | definitely seen them. They're all around us on websites and membership |
| 0:49.4 | agreements at the grocery store. Dark patterns are little design details that |
| 0:54.2 | can be used to nudge you in a certain direction to do something you normally |
| 0:58.5 | might not want to do. And these tricks just keep getting trickier, which is why |
| 1:03.0 | you should know more about how they work. Here's Teddy Schleifer and Sarah Morrison. |
| 1:11.3 | Tell me if this has happened to you. You click on a website or open an app and |
| 1:16.3 | asks you, can we use your data? The yes button big and bright. Maybe it's |
| 1:21.2 | pleasant, baby blue with a halo of white around it. It looks warm and inviting. |
| 1:25.4 | And then there's the no button. Tiny gray boring. Sometimes hard to find. Which |
| 1:33.1 | do you choose? You probably pick yes. And much of the digital world is designed |
| 1:38.7 | this way. We're given options, but apps and websites are designed to make one |
| 1:42.7 | choice more appealing than others. This phenomenon even has a spooky name. |
| 1:47.4 | It's called dark patterns. We could Sarah Morrison's here to talk about. Hey, Sarah. |
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