{"id":5284,"date":"2023-09-27T16:50:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highiq.com.au\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2023-09-27T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:52:27","slug":"many-of-new-zealands-most-popular-websites-use-dark-patterns-to-manipulate-users-is-it-time-to-regulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highiq.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/09\/27\/many-of-new-zealands-most-popular-websites-use-dark-patterns-to-manipulate-users-is-it-time-to-regulate\/","title":{"rendered":"Many of New Zealand\u2019s most popular websites use \u2018dark patterns\u2019 to manipulate users \u2013 is it time to\u00a0regulate?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More than half of the most popular New Zealand websites may be unfairly manipulating visitors, according to our <a href=\"https:\/\/talesfromthedarkside.org\/resources\/\">latest research<\/a> into the use of \u201cdark patterns\u201d in sites with a \u201cco.nz\u201d domain name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While legal, dark patterns have been <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1907.07032\">described<\/a> as a type of online design employed to manipulate users into \u201cmaking decisions that, if fully informed and capable of selecting alternatives, they might not make\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/many-of-new-zealands-most-popular-websites-use-dark-patterns-to-manipulate-users-is-it-time-to-regulate-169538\">Read more here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of the most popular New Zealand websites may be unfairly manipulating visitors, according to our latest research into the use of \u201cdark patterns\u201d in sites with a \u201cco.nz\u201d domain name. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highiq.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highiq.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highiq.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highiq.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highiq.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highiq.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5288,"href":"https:\/\/highiq.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions\/5288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highiq.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highiq.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highiq.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highiq.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}