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Leesa.com: Countdown Timer.

Author
Mathur, Arunesh; Acar, Gunes; Friedman, Michael J.; Lucherini, Elena; Mayer, Jonathan; Chetty, Marshini; Narayanan, Arvind
Date
21 Feb 2021
Type
Fake urgency
Publisher
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites

“Countdown Timer in a popup displayed on http://leesa.com. In this instance, the stated offer is valid even after the half hour long timer expires.”

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