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Other elements of dark design are less obvious. Free services such as Facebook and YouTube monetise your attention by placing advertisements in front of you as you scroll, browse or watch.

But ProPublica's dark web site is far from the first foray from reputable publishers and web companies into Tor's anonymity network. In late 2014, Facebook launched its own Tor hidden service .

The presence of an organization’s data in forums, Telegram chats, and dark web pages also contributed to the elevated risks, although to a slightly lesser extent.

Chrome's dark mode is enabled through a new feature flag, #enable-android-web-contents-dark-mode, which activates a force_dark_mode_enabled preference in the browser's engine.