A deceptive pattern is a way of presenting choices to people that are manipulative, tricking them into making choices that are not in their best interest. The term is often applied in the field of user experience design, and cookie banners are a perfect example of deceptive patterns. Not only are cookie banners themselves often superfluous – purely functional cookies usually do not require them, only advertising/tracking cookies do. But more often than not, the “accept all cookies” choi...
