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This page opened not one, not two, not three, but four pop-ups that I needed to close to get to the article. 1. cookie acceptance 2. subscribe to mailing list
by shp0ngle 6y ago
This page opened not one, not two, not three, but four pop-ups that I needed to close to get to the article.
1. cookie acceptance
2. subscribe to mailing list
3. subscribe to technology review
4. some ad that overtook half of the screen
Do they want people actually read this website?
- mrtksn 6y agoWhy would they want people to read the website? It’s a hard thing to measure and hard to monetize. Most want you to visit a website, get tracked and served an ad accordingly, follow the ad and go buy something. If that’s not happening, the second best thing is to get your communication info so that they can try again. Reading the website often can be considered harmful as you may not share it if the article is not as interesting as title that took you there.
- vmception 6y agoYou and I live in totally different worlds and I pity your entire internet browsing experience. I had to open up an incognito browser to see what you were talking about. In my normal browsing experience I only got the thing on the bottom half. And perhaps there is a possibility that I already had managed the cookies in the past.
- shp0ngle 6y agoYeah, it might be because you already clicked all those 4 pop-ups in the past.
- IncRnd 6y agoI browse with js disabled, and I had none of those issues.
- dirkt 6y agoThankfully, I can still read their article with javascript blocked (something that stops working on more and more sites), so I wasn't hit by that.