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Report Garden: Emotional Manipulation.

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

“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?”

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.