{"id":342865,"date":"2025-10-03T18:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=342865"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:44:31","slug":"extra-fee-for-cash-on-delivery-minister-promises-crackdown-on-dark-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=342865","title":{"rendered":"Extra Fee For Cash-On-Delivery? Minister Promises Crackdown On &#8216;Dark Patterns&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cracking down on &#8216;dark patterns&#8217; employed by e-commerce companies, Consumer Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi has said firms that charge extra for cash-on-delivery will now face action.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCracking down on &#8216;dark patterns&#8217; employed by e-commerce companies, Consumer Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi has said firms that charge extra for cash-on-delivery will now face action.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cracking down on &#8216;dark patterns&#8217; employed by e-commerce companies, Consumer Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi has said firms that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":342866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/342866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template:. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template: 6a4b5deb190636d5f833cb99. Config Timestamp: 2026-07-06 07:48:59 UTC, Cached Timestamp: 2026-07-11 00:33:43 UTC, Optimization Time: 2.67ms -->