Dark Patterns

When I first seen this word “Dark Patterns” I thought of it as a title of a scary book then seen that it was something totally different. Dark patterns are tricky ways a website or app of some kind that tricks you into doing something you really didn’t want to or mean to. I had many encounters with this dark patterns when I go on websites where I want to play a game and tells me that another game is way better than this one and when I click on it, it makes me sign up for it and buy other things that I had no intention on doing.
While I was reading the different types of dark patterns I was truly shocked by how much there actually were. Like why would anyone want to do this. It is very frustrating when you want to do buy one thing or search another thing and the site ends up tricking, forcing, or persuading you into buying or doing something that you don’t want to. I hope that I can find a way to avoid these dark patterns more often.