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Investopedia: Emotional Manipulation.

Author
Gray et al.
Date
23 Mar 2017
Publisher
UXP2 Lab

“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?”

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.