Investopedia was catalogued by the UXP2 Lab over the wording used to encourage mailing list sign-ups. According to the entry, the site tries to get the user to subscribe to its mailing list by making them click on a shaming option if they do not wish to subscribe.
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Investopedia: Emotional Manipulation.
“Tries to get the user to subscribe to their mailing list by making the user click on a shameful option if they do not wish to. What if the user already subscribes to this service?”
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