Lay Theories of Manipulation: Do Consumers Believe They are Susceptible to Marketers Trickery?

A staff report cataloguing the design tricks that push people into purchases and subscriptions they never wanted. Each pattern comes with real enforcement examples.

Federal Trade Commission

A crawl of 11,000 shopping sites that found 1,818 dark patterns across 15 types. It turns a vague complaint about manipulative design into measured evidence.

Mathur, Acar, Friedman and others