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My recommendation: leave. Websites won't stop doing something intrusive and annoying until it costs them more than it gets them.
by hawkice 9y ago
My recommendation: leave. Websites won't stop doing something intrusive and annoying until it costs them more than it gets them.
- enraged_camel 9y agoYeah but how are they going to realize people are leaving because of that one specific thing?
- guntars 9y agoThey are doing A/B tests on something like that, right?
- hawkice 9y agoThere's a sense it which it isn't your responsibility to figure that out. If they never check, you avoid annoyance. If they do check (A/B test, eyeballing it, whatever), they'll see. If they're unwilling to turn it off no matter what then they're kind of terrible, and probably should lose lots of traffic.
- ben-schaaf 9y agoNatural selection. Sites that use this tactic would get less revenue and thus have a higher chance of dying than those that don't. Therefore, over time, sites would trend towards not having that feature.
- petercooper 9y agoUnfortunately that hasn't worked for those infuriating "sign up for our email!" popovers/interstitials. Indeed, they seem to work better than ever.