A systematic review of user experiments finds that dark patterns reliably alter behavior with large variance in effect sizes, most interventions fail to mitigate them, and effects are similar across tested demographic groups.
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A Systematic Review of User Experiments Measuring the Effects of Dark Patterns
A systematic review of user experiments finds that dark patterns reliably alter behavior with large variance in effect sizes, most interventions fail to mitigate them, and effects are similar across tested demographic groups.