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See if any of this sounds familiar:

See if any of this sounds familiar:

Companies make it easy to subscribe to their services — and frustratingly hard to unsubscribe. Businesses are forced to give you privacy options, then make it difficult to opt out

Companies make it easy to subscribe to their services — and frustratingly hard to unsubscribe. Businesses are forced to give you privacy options, then make it difficult to opt out

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has joined Consumer Reports, Access Now, PEN America, and DarkPatterns.org in launching the “Dark Patterns Tip Line”—a project for the public to submit examples of deceptive design patterns they see in technology products and services. “Dark patterns” design tactics are used to trick people into doing all kinds of things they don’t mean to, from signing up for a mailing list to submitting to recurring billing. Examples seen ...