Illegal dark patterns check (EU, UK, US)
kinerette/ecommerce-dark-patterns
Checks store, cart, checkout and subscription flows for 12 dark patterns that are illegal in the EU, UK and US, such as pre-ticked add-ons, struck-through prices never charged, fake countdowns and hard-to-cancel subscriptions, and gives an honest replacement for each.
Review notes
MReviewed by moveset · 2026-10-28 · version 3fa7571 · added by editors
- Good for
- Stores selling into Europe or the US checking promotions or subscriptions for legal risk.
- Not for
- Consumer law elsewhere.
Install
From the GitHub repository kinerette/claude-code-ecommerce-dark-patterns at commit 3fa7571243ecaf9454955ace7e42d5859ff837a7, take only the skills/ecommerce-dark-patterns folder and put it in this project's .agents/skills/ecommerce-dark-patterns/ (for Claude Code, also copy it to .claude/skills/ecommerce-dark-patterns/). Don't run its scripts yet; tell me where you installed it and what it needs.
Pinned to 3fa7571 (2026-09-02), the version we reviewed and scanned
Installs come from the author's repository, not through moveset. Once the author claims it and hosts it on moveset, moveset install will work and deliver updates.
What it touches
- Files
- 5 files, 42 KB4 docs, 1 Node script
- Runtime
- Optional Node.js script that scans your local theme or front-end code
- Network
- No network access; cites EU, UK and US legal texts as sources
- Scan
- Passed, nothing blocked · same scan rules as moveset's own skillsAddresses found in the files (including doc links; not all are contacted): eur-lex.europa.eu, leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, www.ecfr.gov, www.ftc.gov, www.gesetze-im-internet.de, www.gov.uk and 3 more
Author's description
Audit a storefront, cart, checkout or subscription flow for the dark patterns that are illegal — not merely distasteful — in the EU, the UK and the US, and replace each with the honest selling mechanic that still sells. Finds the pre-ticked add-on (refundable under Article 22 of 2011/83/EU), the struck-through price that was never charged (Omnibus, 30-day rule), the countdown seeded from page load, the fabricated review count or "12 people are viewing", the hidden fee added at the last step (drip pricing, banned in the UK from April 2025 and in California), the confirmshaming decline, the subscription that is harder to cancel than to start (ROSCA, California ARL) — each with the text of law it breaks, a file and a line, and the replacement. Use for any compliance review, legal audit, consumer-law check, dark pattern audit, deceptive design review, Omnibus or DMCC or FTC question about a store, before shipping any discount, urgency, scarcity, add-on, "free" claim or subscription, and whenever an agent is asked to "add urgency" or "add social proof" to a page.ecommerce-dark-patterns · SKILL.md · kinerette/claude-code-ecommerce-dark-patterns@3fa7571
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