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Thredup.com: Activity Notification.

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

“Activity Notification on http://thredup.com highlighting the names and locations of those who purchased the product. The message always signals sold products as “just saved”, regardless of the real recency.”