{"id":50860,"date":"2026-11-11T21:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T20:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/loot-boxes-influencers-and-addictive-features-face-an-eu-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T21:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T20:34:57","slug":"loot-boxes-influencers-and-addictive-features-face-an-eu-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/loot-boxes-influencers-and-addictive-features-face-an-eu-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Loot boxes, influencers, and addictive features face an EU crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/authors\/jess-weatherbed\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jess Weatherbed<\/p>\n<p>is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Gaming, social media, and e-commerce platforms are facing a fresh wave of sweeping European Union rules that aim to make \u201cyour online experience fairer.\u201d The newly proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/speech_26_2412\">Digital Fairness Act (DFA)<\/a> published by the EU Commission on Wednesday is designed to tackle practices that exploit consumers into spending more of their time and money online, including misleading prices or availability, addictive design features like gaming loot boxes, undisclosed influencer marketing, and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Act will protect consumers of all ages shopping and browsing for goods or services online,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/news-and-media\/news\/making-your-online-experience-fairer-2026-11-11_en\">EU Commission said in a news bulletin<\/a>. \u201cIt will also mean fairer competition for businesses, which are expecting to save EU consumers up to \u20ac13.7 billion ($15.1 billion) a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an overview of what the <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/law\/law-topic\/consumer-protection-law\/digital-fairness-act_en\">DFA proposal<\/a> includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A ban on manipulative marketing practices and so-called \u201cdark patterns\u201d that push consumers into making decisions they might not otherwise make, such as fake claims about a product almost being sold out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/1031575\/digital-fairness-act-eu-dfa-consumer-protection\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Gaming, social media, and e-commerce platforms are facing a fresh wave of sweeping European Union rules that aim to make \u201cyour online experience fairer.\u201d The newly proposed Digital Fairness Act<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,108,110,326,340,426,405],"class_list":["post-50860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-regulation","tag-social-media","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}