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MyFellowAmericanPoll.com: Unable to unsubscribe from emails

Author
Dark Patterns Tip Line
Date
4 Mar 2022

“My father’s email account gets emails from this site often – filling his inbox with unwanted junk. At one point in the past, he may have subscribed. Now, he can not unsubscribe. The link to “Unsubscribe” on the bottom of the email leads to a non-existent page.”

MyFellowAmericanPoll.com was reported to the Deceptive Design Tip Line over an inability to unsubscribe from its emails. According to the report, the reporter’s father receives frequent emails from the site that fill his inbox with unwanted junk, possibly from a subscription made at some point in the past, but he cannot now unsubscribe because the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email leads to a non-existent page.

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