Deceptive Patterns
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Intersport.de uses fake “X visitors are looking at this product right now” component.

Author
darkpatterns
Date
4 Jul 2021
Publisher
Twitter

“On the intersport.de website, a random number generator was used to fake live consumer interest on product listing pages”

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