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A browser extension that offers users insights of online e-commerce, avoiding dark patterns, enabling consumers to make sustainable financial decisions.
A browser extension that offers users insights of online e-commerce, avoiding dark patterns, enabling consumers to make sustainable financial decisions.
xCost uses local LLM and symbolic AI to disclose potential risks within legal documents, term and conditions and so on, empowering users to make informed and sustainable financial decisions.
Financial services sometimes use manipulative tactics to influence your decisions. Here are some common dark patterns to avoid.
A design that makes it incredibly easy to get into a situation (like signing up for a service) but difficult to get out of (like cancelling a subscription).
Unexpected charges or fees appear at the last stage of a transaction after you have already invested time and effort.
Free trials that automatically convert into paid subscriptions without a clear reminder or easy way to cancel.
A product or service is automatically added to your purchase or subscription without your explicit consent.
Using guilt or shame to manipulate you into making a particular choice, typically by making opting out feel uncomfortable.
Creating a false sense of time pressure to push you into acting quickly, regardless of actual availability or deadlines.