I cannot fathom why people sign up for this kind of spam-direct-to-your-inbox. The article openly discusses the ways in which they manipulate their audience, an

I cannot fathom why people sign up for this kind of spam-direct-to-your-inbox. The article openly discusses the ways in which they manipulate their audience, and admits the “newsletter” is a marketing initiative. Nothing has me reaching for the back button faster than a popup asking me to subscribe to a newsletter. Nothing will turn me off from your product faster than manipulative dark patterns. The fact that they even manage their “open rate” as a metric implies a level of tracking that screams “my audience is my prey”.