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Stopped reading this article at the second popover. Why are so many web authors so willing to compromise their writing with this nonsense?
by iamaelephant 7y ago
Stopped reading this article at the second popover. Why are so many web authors so willing to compromise their writing with this nonsense?
- mrarjen 7y agoI'm already happy not half the page is ads on this one, but yes you get ripped right out of reading and it instantly comes off as a cheap site.
- kick 7y agoWhat popover? Are you not using uBlock Origin/uMatrix for some reason?
- michaelbrooks 7y agoIt's a subscribe popover so it doesn't count as an ad. I'm running uBlock and it didn't catch it.
- kick 7y agoMaybe give uMatrix a try, I didn't see a thing!
- nsomaru 7y agoI use uMatrix but honestly it is not the solution if you want to “just read.” Things are broken and often I need to spend a few minutes setting a site up before it works. Also the fact that I can’t block individual scripts (can I?) is a little irritating because often I just need one of the 50 scripts loading from a 3rd party domain to render the page but all of them load and execute.
- kick 7y agoYou should be able to allow certain scripts (I think you have to go into the addon's preference page though).
- ChrisSD 7y agouMatrix is specifically designed and optimized to work on domains. The rules syntax is: source hostname {white spaces} destination hostname {white spaces} [request type {white spaces} [action]]
- Lagogarda 7y agoPopover=need to scale. Can websites rlly ‘be cultural hubs’ when their ultimate goal is 2 scale at all costs?Do we rlly ‘trust’ websites that primarily exist 2 scale? Do we like businesses that only rlly want to scale and don’t actually care abt their customers? Why do we ‘celebrate’ scalable ideas? Do ideas that are ‘scalable’ represent the optimal solutions 4 human existence? Or are they the businesses that have the most successful scalable ideas eventually oppress us by marginalizing necessary human actions into metrics & monetizable opportunities?
- JoshuaDavid 7y agoNot an answer to why it happens, but for any longform text like this, I find that reader mode almost always provides a better reading experience.
- cyborgx7 7y agoI highly doubt the author gets any say in the matter.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoI only got the one popover (which browser are you using?) and there are plenty of sites with worse dark patterns.
- mosselman 7y ago> there are plenty of sites with worse dark patterns Great argument...
- elicash 7y agoThey can't afford to quit their job over popovers when most of the ad money in their industry goes to Facebook and Google rather than content creators bc of the tech companies' reach and the massive amounts of data they have about everybody?
- Double_a_92 7y agoIf you are using Firefox, press F9 on the article.
- StuffedParrot 7y agoIt’s not the writers, it’s the private equity. See: the recent demise of deadspin.