Psychological tricks and traps using deceptive website design techniques are starting to overwhelm online shopping.

What's being termed 'dark patterns' are becoming increasingly prevalent on shopping websites as online businesses scramble for your dollars

Guests:

• Chris Shulz - Consumer NZ senior investigative journalist
• Alex Sims - University of Auckland commercial law professor

Learn More:

• Read Consumer NZ's Invisible Influence report here
• Here's the report Alex mentioned that found websites using dark patterns had double, sometimes quadruple participation rate compared to websites that didn't
• Read more about the Hello Fresh case here

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Two big political memoirs have hit the bookshops this year - but which high profile politicians are missing from the shelves

From memoirs to biographies; autobiographies - both authorised and unauthorised - to the mid-career manifesto, the documented lives of politicians come in many forms

Guests:

• Tim Murphy - Newsroom co-editor
• Jim McAloon - Victoria University professor of political history

Learn More:

• Listen to previous podcasts from Tim Murphy with The Detail here and here
• Listen to a previous podcast from Jim McAloon with The Detail here

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A surprise reversal on high beef tariffs has been a welcome relief for farmers, but with Trump in the White House, celebrations are muted

U.S President Donald Trump no longer has beef with some Kiwi exports, but others are still stuck paying a high price - and an economist warns it's anyone's guess how long the relief will last

Guests:

• Brad Olsen - New Zealand economist
• Kate Acland - Beef and Lamb New Zealand chair and New Zealand Meat Board chair

Learn More:

• Read more about the tariff removal and what it means for New Zealand here, here and here

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