Cyber criminals purchase advertisements that appear within internet search results using a domain that is similar to an actual business or service. When a user searches for that business or service, these advertisements appear at the very top of search results with minimum distinction between an advertisement and an actual search result. These advertisements link to a webpage that looks identical to the impersonated business’s official webpage.
In tips section:
Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches. Most internet browsers allow a user to add extensions, including extensions that block advertisements. These ad blockers can be turned on and off within a browser to permit advertisements on certain websites while blocking advertisements on others.
Isn’t that kind of already in existence? I am predominantly thinking of RSS readers, but also read-mode or read-it-later apps extracting only article bodies and bookmarking apps used for curating and saving your own interesting content, or FOSS frontends such as invidious/piped, twire and tubular.
None of these are extensions or specific to recognising dark patterns, but by their nature of content extraction and delivery they (almost by definition) circumvent most of the existing dark patterns trying to gate or steer access to said content.