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Pyrex: Emotional Manipulation.

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

“Pyrex 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?”

Pyrex was catalogued by the UXP2 Lab over the way it prompts users to subscribe to its mailing list. The entry describes Pyrex trying to get the user to subscribe by making them click on a shameful option if they do not wish to, and raises the question of what happens if the user already subscribes to the service.