Dark Patterns: the art of online deception – Science Weekly podcast

Published: July 12, 2019, 5 a.m.

Have you ever been caught out online and subscribed to something you didn’t mean to? Ian Sample has and so he tasked Jordan Erica Webber with finding out how companies play on our psyches to pinch our pennies and what we can do about it. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod