{"id":68676,"date":"2024-07-13T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/your-subscription-apps-use-manipulative-design-techniques-ftc-finds-techcrunch-minute\/"},"modified":"2024-07-13T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T14:43:51","slug":"your-subscription-apps-use-manipulative-design-techniques-ftc-finds-techcrunch-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/your-subscription-apps-use-manipulative-design-techniques-ftc-finds-techcrunch-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"Your subscription apps use manipulative design techniques, FTC finds | TechCrunch Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FTC announced the results of a study into the use of \u201cdark patterns\u201d \u2014 or manipulative design techniques \u2014 <!--more--> that can put users\u2019 privacy at risk or push them to buy products or services or take other actions they otherwise wouldn\u2019t have. The study found that the majority of websites and apps offering subscription services studied used at least one dark pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for more on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/youtube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/youtube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow TechCrunch on Instagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/tcrn.ch\/instagram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/tcrn.ch\/instagram<\/a><br \/>\nTikTok: <a href=\"https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/tiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/tiktok<\/a><br \/>\nX: <a href=\"https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/x<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/tcrn.ch\/facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FTC announced the results of a study into the use of \u201cdark patterns\u201d \u2014 or manipulative design techniques \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}