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It seems like Firefox is trying to be helpful. They show the content for a dead project ("Support the sites you love, avoid the ads you hate ..." ) with a heade
by mirimir 7y ago
It seems like Firefox is trying to be helpful. They show the content for a dead project ("Support the sites you love, avoid the ads you hate ..." ) with a header explaining that "This study is no longer active. Thank you for your participation." That's arguably much better than an enigmatic 404 error.
- Liquid_Fire 7y ago> with a header explaining that "This study is no longer active. Thank you for your participation." I think that header is way too easy to miss, because it occupies the same space as the usual pointless cookie or "sign up"-type banners that many websites show. I certainly didn't see it at first. I suspect that the author of the linked blog post did not see that message either, since they describe that page being a 404 as "probably a bug".
- happytoexplain 7y agoI saw the banner and was equally confused - a 404 seems like the wrong abstraction layer for that content, just intuitively.