Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks | TechCrunch
Amazon has been fined in Poland for misleading consumers about the conclusion of sales contracts on its online marketplace. The sanction, of close to $8 million (or in local currency: PLN 31,850,141), also calls out the e-commerce giant for deceptive design elements which may inject a false sense of urgency into the purchasing process and mislead shoppers about elements like product availability and delivery dates.
The country’s consumer and competition watchdog, the UOKiK, has been looking into...
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