Most of those dark patterns revolve around stealing personal data to sell it to data brokers, sometimes accompanied by extortion to give more of that data. If a

Most of those dark patterns revolve around stealing personal data to sell it to data brokers, sometimes accompanied by extortion to give more of that data. If a big international corp made money by stealing bicycles or cars, its execs would quickly end up in prison, but this is what's happening right now in the internet. If our politicians had balls and moral, they would make it a crime to steal PII, unless the firm has a contract with the customer signed by ink, not transferrable, expiring in a year at most, with gov entities exempt. Unfortunately, PII theft has become the backbone of the modern economy.