You know that nag that so many godawful services employ nowadays? Would you like enable [insert upselling scam]? Be it Siri, OneDrive, or some other form of data sharing with big tech. The thing that bugs me the most is how somebody somewhere – may their soul burn in Hell forever and ever – found out that you get more sales by not allowing the user to say ‘No’.
Instead you can just evade the proposition temporarily. ‘Not now’. ‘Maybe later’. ‘Let me think about it’. It’s the slow wearing down of resistance. It’s the refusal to take no for an answer. It’s incredibly disrespectful. It’s f***ing evil.
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