You are being manipulated. Every single day. And it is not your fault.

That surprise charge on your credit card from a "free" trial that auto-renewed. The airline ticket whose price mysteriously inflated with hidden fees just before you paid. The social media feed that you planned to check for five minutes and ended up scrolling for an hour. These are not isolated frustrations or personal failings. They are the calculated outcomes of an invisible architecture of manipulation built into the very fabric of the digital world: dark patterns.

The Architecture of Manipulation is a groundbreaking and definitive guide that turns on the lights, exposing the psychologically potent designs that corporations use to subvert your choices, drain your wallet, and steal your attention. Drawing on deep research into behavioral psychology, landmark legal cases, and the hidden mechanics of user experience design, this book gives you the tools to see the traps, resist their pull, and reclaim your control.

Inside, you will discover:

This book is for anyone who has ever felt outmaneuvered by a website, trapped by a subscription, or drained by their digital life. It is a work of crucial media literacy for the modern age, providing a vocabulary for our frustration and a clear path toward a more ethical and humane technological future.

Don't be a passive user in an environment designed to exploit you. Read The Architecture of Manipulation and become the architect of your own digital freedom.