"You can experience our content better in the app!"
My brother in Christ, you made the website...
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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Of course they did. You can collect more data by forcing the user to create an account and circumvent most ad blocks in an app though! What incentive do they have to making a functioning site?!
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Throw one of those bottom-corner "How can I help?" pop ups that makes the tab flash and constantly change the text in there too.
And "Install our app!". And those glorious auto-play videos blocking your entire view.
Without the autoplaying and scrolling video that uses 1/2 of my screen, how will I ever focus on reading the page?
Netbrain has one that makes a sound. Annoying when you tuck their page in a tab. No site should throw sound out like that.
This site is better in The App! Download now?
The App:
A Chrome component, coupled to a straw to slurp all your data a browser cannot reach, and notifications coming out of your arse at 2am because they cannot fathom the idea of other countries existing.
Was raised in an age where where you needed firewalls, antiviruses, spam blocks and ad blocks, Ect to surf the web safety.
Now companies are doing everything they can to make sure you disable all it to have the privilege of using their website.
Also "don't give personal information like your real name to strangers over the Internet." Lol
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Anytime a website forces me to turn off my adblock, I leave it and block it so it doesn't show up again. If you force such predatory tactics, I am not interested in your website, and I'd rather look for another one.
People living in EU. You guys are lucky. These cookie banners and stuff behave differently there because EU forces the reject all button
Every other website i visit has a different tactic of hiding their reject button.
They will even give a second pop up leaving you unable to use the website in hopes of you clicking accept anyway.
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The EU does definitely not have an easy reject all button..it's always a minefield to work out how to disable them. Most take over 30-60 seconds to find out how to disable everything
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That doesn't seem to be true. A lot of German publishers do not allow you to proceed without giving consent to cookies and profiling for targeted advertising. They consider this legal because they offer you the alternative of "opting out" by signing up for a paid subscription.
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In 204x will be like
> visit site
> Popup: "We'd like to introduce you to our own Terms of Service."
> Popup: "And also these random terms regarding global rights
> Popup: "And minorities"
> Popup: "And countries who need YOUR help!"
> Popup: "No really, we really mean it."
> Popup: "And also regarding telemetry"
> Popup: "And on how we will fetch private/sensitive about you without your concern."
> Popup: "Also some things we've got from third parties about you"
> Popup: "Oh yeah! Would you like to buy these random stuff we think its fitting for YOU?"
etc.
By that time the websites will use LLMs to weave all that shit into the articles you read. Perfecting the method of ever so slowly conditioning you after the vision of some ~~coked up marketing exec~~ marketing algorithm's personalised hellhole, based on your very private and personal desires.
The average user will read about yet another school shooting and leave the article wishing for a delicious and refreshing coke to wash down the bad taste in their mouth, like only real coca cola can, which is now improved in flavour and available in a refrigeration section near your habitat. Because when the world let's you down, coca cola will pick you up!
More patience than me. I don't make it past Frame 2 unless I can keep scrolling, or there's a 'Reject All' button. If anything else pops up, too many ads in the scroll, or paragraph three still says fuck all, I'm out
I always just reject cookies but if they start whining about adblock I'm out (apparently even when it's YouTube)
I was trying to read an article the other day and they had a reject all cookies button. When this is an option I always use it but this one redirected me to a page that told me they won't let me view their articles if I don't let them track me. It went on to talk about some bullshit sob story about how it's the only way they can be profitable and that they pinky promise to be responsible with the data collected.
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Yes, but imagine what we had to deal with during the 90s dot-com boom before someone created a pop-up blocker. It was absolutely hellish.
js was a mistake
All praise Firefox reader view!
π as soon as I see any pop up on an article i'm reading I smash the reader view button... for other sites I have an addon to reload the page without JS
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It's working less and less though. You can't do this on websites like Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg because the article doesn't actually load more than the first paragraph without being subscribed.
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I get why soulless corporations do this, but why do regular folks choose to publish their content on Medium, Substack, Devto, etc. when this is the shitty UX theyβll be forcing on their readers.
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Newsletters and notifications β two things I have never, ever once allowed.
STOP ASKING
allow thisshittywebsite.com to see your location?
Nice try, Jareth
Now you can add:
- disable ad blocker to continue
- set your tracking preference that weβll forget next visit, but you canβt read until you click it, ok?
- a video clip with ads playing in banner on top, which plays audio without your permission - then pops up the window just below as you scroll, blocking half the text
Ive been doing this dance for 30 years. From pop under popup windows in the 90s, adobe flash ads, Java script⦠and the list just keeps going. I have never bought something, from a web advert that was obnoxious. Google was the only place I willingly allowed ads back in early 2000s; that simple text box on the right with almost relevant adverts to my search. I bought from one of those, once.
I would be awfully suspicious if they remembered my βno cookiesβ preference.
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There were a few years without any popups at all. This directly caused the 2008 recession due to people not receiving newsletters.
I still get some of them, even with multiple anti-annoyance lists.
Anyone has a 99% working setup for mixed german/english, IT-centric usage?
Guy is determined. I give up on the first one.
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