Tech
Digital Fairness Act: EU moves to outlaw dark patterns and subscription traps
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 2 reports
- Momentum
- New
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 3 to 4 newsrooms by 6:46am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 58% of the past week’s 3691 stories, and number 59 of 285 in Games.Why it’s moving
- ScoopEurogamer had it 21 hr before anyone else.
The European Commission proposed today the Digital Fairness Act, a consumer rulebook that would ban loot boxes for minors, blacklist manipulative interface design, and put a termination button on every online subscription. The proposal would repeal the EU’s 2005 Unfair Commercial Practices Directive
In The Next Web’s words.1
The story so far
3 newsrooms- Reports
- 3
- Newsrooms and sources
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 2
First with it: Eurogamer, 20 hr 51 min before anyone else.
Reported by 3 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Over
- 22.7 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 22.7 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 1:46am AEDT | Eurogamer | 1 |
| 10:38pm AEDT | The Next Web | 2 |
| 12:30am AEDT | Rock Paper Shotgun | 3 |
Bigger than 92% of Games stories this week. Reached three newsrooms in 22.7 hr; a typical Games story that gets there takes 8.5 hr.
Eurogamer
The Next Web
Rock Paper Shotgun