Who in higher education is teaching and encouraging dark patterns?
Where are people learning not just how to design them, but that there's no ethical impact to subjecting people to them?
Where are people learning not just how to design them, but that there's no ethical impact to subjecting people to them?
Here is one example: https://sam.hwr-berlin.de/en/vorlesungsverzeichnis.php?p_id=...
It's all about incentives and the incentive is to make money.
PE firms, investors, the founder, the employee with stock options. The world runs on making money and subscription businesses are one hell of a cash cow.