It's a dark pattern to trick users into handing over their email.
Accidentally clicked on one these instead of the close button and then started immediately receiving incessant marketing spam from that website. Of course I wasn't able to unsubscribe from the mailing list without first creating an account with them and accepting their terms so ended up resorting to blocking their email.
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It's a dark pattern to trick users into handing over their email.
Accidentally clicked on one these instead of the close button and then started immediately receiving incessant marketing spam from that website. Of course I wasn't able to unsubscribe from the mailing list without first creating an account with them and accepting their terms so ended up resorting to blocking their email.