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Marie Claire: 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?”

Marie Claire was catalogued by the UXP2 Lab over a prompt encouraging users to subscribe to its mailing list. According to the entry, the user who does not wish to subscribe must click an option worded to make them feel shameful, and the entry notes this takes no account of users who already subscribe to the service.