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About the Project
About the Project
Ariadne is a browser extension that helps you become aware of deceptive design in cookie banners on the Web. It does this through a set of specifically-trained machine learning models that detect deceptive design patterns within the language and the design of cookie banners.
Ariadne (v.0.1.2) is part of an ongoing research project on the automated detection of deceptive design in cookie banners.
Deceptive Design
Deceptive Design
Deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying, signing up for, or consenting to something. Read more here.
Cookie Banners
Cookie Banners
A cookie banner is a notice displayed to ask or inform a user of the use of cookies which are text files with pieces of data that are used to identify your device as you browse the internet. Ariadne helps us identify the use of deceptive design in cookie banners in the form of weighted options and unclear language.
Weighted Options
Weighted Options
Cookie banners may make the option to decline consent for cookies to coerce a user to allow the use of it. They can do this by changing the size and color of the decline option, or by removing it altogether.
Unclear Language
Unclear Language
Cookie banners could use confusing or improper wording meant to be vague about the purposes of cookies, assume the user provides consent, or not ask for consent at all.
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