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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2021
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Mary Diane Swift, Rochester, NY (US);
Irene Lizeth Manotas Gutiérrez, White Plains, NY (US);
Jonathan D. Dunne, Dungarvan, IE;
Daphne Coates, St. Leonards on Sea, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A user is detected navigating to a webpage. A plurality of web elements of the webpage is identified. One or more web elements is determined to have a risk score that surpasses a risk threshold of being a dark pattern. The risk score is identified by analyzing each of the plurality of web elements. A mitigation action configured to counteract the dark pattern is executed in response to the one or more web elements having the risk score that surpasses the risk threshold. The mitigating action is executed substantially immediately upon the user navigating to the webpage.