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> though it's obvious they're frustrated (understandably) It reminds me of the meme where a guy is riding his bike, inserts a stick into his own wheel while ri
by seattle_spring 6y ago
> though it's obvious they're frustrated (understandably)
It reminds me of the meme where a guy is riding his bike, inserts a stick into his own wheel while riding, falls over (understandably), and then blames someone else for his fall.
- vorpalhex 6y agoWhen I visit a news site, to read an article, I get a video that scrolls along with me and autoplays. So I disable video autoplay. This breaks some video conferencing apps. It's a choice I have to make - some broken apps or a bunch of annoying websites. Some websites use my cookies and localstorage to track me across properties. They do this so they can harvest my profile data and habits and sell them for profit without my permission. Again, it's a choice and I think it's a fair one to make. As engineers, we don't exist to punish our users for making choices different from ours. That's a great way to end up without any users. We should make their experience as good as we can and give them value. Sometimes that isn't possible - I can't make a video conference app that's immune to blocking autoplay. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
- obedm 6y agoI whole-heartedly agree with this. Unless you implement a must-have feature based on localStorage or whatever, your site should still fully (or at least partially) function without it. In my case, I was aghast my blog didn't work without cookies. I don't even have ads running on it, and it's static, it should work on my grandmother's toaster!