Knowing, and avoiding, these elements can give designers the opportunity to use strategies that allow users to be better informed and have greater control over their information.

1. Privacy Zuckering: Default #privacy settings that are made complex for the end-user by poorly presenting the available settings, encouraging users to reveal more information than intended.

2. Bad default: Default options that ease or encourage the sharing of personal information.

3. Forced registrations: Forcing individuals to register for an account to use a service when it is not technically necessary.

4. Hidden stipulation: Terms and conditions that are difficult to read, making it possible to hide malicious stipulations.

5. Immortal accounts: Preventing or complicating a user’s decision to delete an account.

6. Address book leeching: Urges users to share their contacts to access a site function. The info is then used for unauthorized purposes.

7. Shadow profiles: Hidden profiles of users with additional data of which the user is unaware. May be used to link users who have a common connection.

8. Information milking: When a web page requests more information than it needs to provide a service to the user.

Above list is not all inclusive. See www.darkpatterns.org for additional examples.

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