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The Dark Patterns Tip Line collects reports of dark patterns, described as design tactics in websites and apps that persuade people into actions they would not otherwise take. A team of designers, academic researchers, legal experts and policy specialists leads the project. Submissions are reviewed before posting and may be used in research or to illustrate dark patterns to the public, media and policymakers.
Custom Dark Mode customizes website colors, themes, dark mode, or browser appearance.
Dark Reader is an open-source browser extension that enables a dark theme on websites for night and daily browsing. It is available for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari, and its brightness, contrast and sepia settings can be adjusted and enabled for all sites or particular domains.
Dark Site Finder is a website with a light pollution map, updated with 2022 data, intended to help users find dark skies. It also includes a listing of dark sites and blog posts about stargazing, photography and astronomical events.
A tag archive on Krebs on Security collecting posts about dark web topics. Entries cover the 2019 takedown of the Wall Street Market dark web bazaar, the disappearance of the Evolution Market in 2015, and stolen credit card shops. Each entry carries a publication date and reader comments.
Reporting and explainers on dark-web activity, leak sites and underground cybercrime.
News archive covering dark-web leaks, criminal forums, takedowns and ransomware activity.
Dark-web intelligence company publishing monitoring, ransomware and underground-ecosystem analysis.
A working paper by John Schriner that focuses on how researchers monitor the Dark Web. It defines onion services and Tor and discusses tools for monitoring and securing onion services.
Reporting archive on dark-web crime, underground forums, data leaks and law-enforcement actions.
Dark Patterns Detective is a game with eight realistic checkout, sign-up and cancel flows. Players are asked to spot manipulative design tricks and then see the honest version, addressing detection of deceptive tactics and design psychology. Eight scenarios take about five minutes.
A collection of curated color themes for qBittorrent, offered for the Qt desktop client and the WebUI (qbittorrent-nox). Themes such as Dark, Dracula, Gruvbox Dark, Solarized Dark, Gruvbox Light and Solarized Light are provided. Each theme ships in two formats: a .qbtheme bundle for the Qt desktop client and a .tar.gz or .zip archive for the WebUI.
Charcoal Dark Mode is a social media utility for platform customization, archives, embeds, or community tools.
A catalog of dark pattern examples sorted by category, with explanations of tactics such as bait and switch, confirmshaming, cookie walls, disguised ads, fake scarcity, hidden costs, misdirection and nagging. Entries include named companies and cases.
This GitHub Gist contains a Dark Reader userscript intended for the Safari browser. The file defines a userscript named DarkReader that matches all URLs and includes dynamic CSS fixes for various websites. The script carries an MIT License notice attributed to Alexander Shutau.
DarkClassics is a storage, design, or frontend resource for mockups, assets, UI tools, or web search.
DarkLight is a non-English web resource for regional media, books, tools, communities, or learning.
Perfect Dark is a non-English web resource for regional media, books, tools, communities, or learning.
Analyst posts on deep- and dark-web activity, threat actors and underground communities.
An arXiv paper presenting a longitudinal analysis of the dark web cybercrime ecosystem. The authors analyze 25,065 websites using 11,403,638 HTML snapshots collected over six years, applying a topic-modeling framework with domain-specific embeddings, density-based clustering and temporal aggregation. The analysis identifies 55 thematic clusters and measures topic prevalence and lifecycle at the website level.
CRATOR is a proposed dark web crawler described in an arXiv paper. It is designed to extract pages that handle security protocols such as captchas, using seed URL lists, link analysis and scanning to discover content, with user-agent rotation and proxy usage for anonymity. The authors report evaluation using coverage, performance and robustness metrics, and suggest threat intelligence, cybersecurity and online investigation applications.
This arXiv paper proposes an end-to-end scalable architecture for early identification of new Tor sites and daily analysis of their content. It is built on an open source big data stack including Kubernetes, Kafka, Kubeflow and MinIO, discovering onion addresses across several sources, downloading HTML from Tor, deduplicating with MinHash LSH and categorizing with BERTopic modeling. In 93 days it identified 80,049 onion services and characterized 90% of them.
Dark Ride Database is a site collecting information about dark rides, with sections for rides, parks, companies, news and specials. It includes a world map, search, random rides and news items about attractions and manufacturers.
Europol assessment of online organized crime, including criminal services and dark-web developments.
