General

Interface interference

Visual or linguistic manipulation of the choice — misdirection, false hierarchy, confirmshaming, pre-selected or default-to-purchase options.

Patterns in this family (10)

Purchase is the default or easily mis-tapped path, so spending happens without express, informed consent.

The provider-preferred option is already selected or treated as the normal path, so inaction becomes consent, spending, or data sharing.

Tiered packs are priced to steer players toward a 'best value' middle option through anchoring and decoys.

The interface floods the player with too many overlapping options, currencies, bundles, settings, or offers to compare meaningfully.

Fabricated or unverifiable signals of others' activity — “1M players bought this!”, fake live counters — used to pressure decisions.

The interface fails to make clear what a button, prompt, or action will actually do before the player commits.

Important purchase, privacy, odds, or consent information is presented in language the player cannot reasonably understand.

Visual salience steers the player toward the provider-preferred option.

Confusing, ambiguous, or expectation-violating wording makes the player take an action they did not mean to take.

Opt-out wording is laden with guilt to discourage the protective choice.