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Website designs that try to change your behavior cross a line when they outright deceive. Fizkes/iStock via Getty Images

Dark patterns on the web are designed to manipulate you – why aren’t they all illegal?

Gregory M. Dickinson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Institute for Humane Studies

Encountering a website that seems like it was designed to frustrate might leave you saying ‘there oughta be a law,’ but to have a case you need to show that the site tried to swindle you.

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