Deceptive Patterns
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Samsung.com: Limited Time.

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

“Limited Time on http://samsung.com. The website states that the deal is “Limited Time Only” without disclosing the deal’s deadline.”

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