Report Garden was catalogued by the UXP2 Lab over how it solicits mailing list sign-ups. According to the entry, the company tries to get the user to subscribe to its mailing list by requiring them to click a shameful option if they do not wish to subscribe. The entry also raises the question of what happens for a user who already subscribes to the service.
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Report Garden: Emotional Manipulation.
“Report Garden 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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