From Exploration to Revelation: Detecting Dark Patterns in Mobile Apps

ArXi:2411.18084v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Mobile apps are essential in daily life but frequently employ deceptive patterns, such as visual emphasis or linguistic nudging, to manipulate user behavior. Existing research largely relies on manual detection, which is time-consuming and cannot keep pace with rapidly evolving apps. Although recent work has explored automated approaches, these methods are limited to intra-page patterns, depend on manual app exploration, and lack flexibility.