Wasted Time
A company may deliberately make a path more cumbersome by creating long and tedious processes that may encourage the user to choose a path they may not have originally intended.
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A company may deliberately make a path more cumbersome by creating long and tedious processes that may encourage the user to choose a path they may not have originally intended.