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by _zzaw 1329 days ago
If I saw this message from a service, I'd start to question whether or not I trust that service. In short: it's obnoxious.

Most of us spend our browsing days dealing with various intrusive demands: GDPR stuff, anti-adblock screens, popovers demanding your email address, apps and widgets begging you for positive reviews, etc. I'm beyond tired of sites and services that behave like this. Any service that's scrutinizing what kind of email I use, and then bothering me about it, is an immediately bad first impression, and makes me wonder what other grubby stuff it's doing behind the scenes. (And the tone—"hey there! I noticed..."—is something I associate with sites that whine about adblocking. It's not tactful so much as grating.)