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Europe wants to ban 'dark patterns' in apps and loot boxes for minors
Tech companies in breach could face fines up to six percent of their global revenue.
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Tech companies in breach could face fines up to six percent of their global revenue. Europe just released a proposal for a new set of consumer protection rules called the Digital Fairness Act (DFA), the EU Commission wrote in a news release . The bloc is targeting practices that harm children and push people into spending more, including things like unclear pricing, addictive design features, ads aimed at minors and " dark patterns " like hard-to-cancel subscriptions.
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