Sling was catalogued by the UXP2 Lab over the process of unsubscribing from its newsletter. According to the entry, the user is made to go through five pages of “Are you sure?” prompts, along with dark patterns such as misdirection of the buttons.
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Sling: Difficult Unsubscribe.
“Sling makes it difficult to unsubscribe from their newsletter and makes the user go through 5 pages of “Are you sure?”s and dark patterns like misdirection of buttons.”
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