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Unrelated to actual content: if you visit the site with ad-blocker on, it does not load. Instead, you just have this icon of the eye looking at you and blinking
by theamk 6y ago
Unrelated to actual content:
if you visit the site with ad-blocker on, it does not load. Instead, you just have this icon of the eye looking at you and blinking. And the eye will just blink until you turn ad-blocker off.
I know the site is called "eye on design", but the associations of user tracking via ads and this blinking eye were amusing to me. Imagine having a blinking eye in the corner of each website for each tracker it has :)
- maest 6y agoIs that what's going on? Regardless of your stance on ad blockers, simply showing a mysterious eye without telling you you should stop your ad blocker sounds like awful design.
- portmanteaufu 6y ago"Inspect element" shows that the eye belongs to: <div class="loader"></div> I think it's meant to be a placeholder animation that goes away when the content is available rather than a cryptic visual for users with an ad blocker. It's definitely a weird net effect.
- gruez 6y agoWhitelisting licdn.com fixes it. If dig deeper and check the ublock origin logger, it looks like it's trying to load https://snap.licdn.com/li.lms-analytics/insight.min.js https://snap.licdn.com/li.lms-analytics/insight.min.js, and if it's blocked the page never loads.
- jjoonathan 6y agoCompletely in line with modern design philosophy, though. Why use words when you can use a mysterious hieroglyph?
- SilasX 6y agoEspecially since it breaks alt-left-arrow for "back".
- harporoeder 6y agoInteresting design choice. When I load the site fresh with ublock origin I get through, but when I visit the page a second time I get the eye forever (confirmed by replicating on a private window).
- gundmc 6y agoIt loaded fine for me on Chrome with uBlock Origin and uMatrix.
- kradeelav 6y agoThat's odd.. may I ask which ad-blocker you were using? I visited it with both Privacy Badger & uBlock Origin running (on FF) and it loaded for me.
- jmholla 6y agoI'm doing all of that, but I got a response similar to the above person, except, the eye didn't blink at me. Correction: It just blinked at me.
- frosted-flakes 6y agouBlock Origin on Firefox Android gave me the eye.
- ThinkingGuy 6y agoI'm using only Privacy Badger. I also got just the blinking eye.
- kiwijamo 6y agoLoads just fine with uBlock Origin on FF.
- yosito 6y agoI've got Firefox with strict privacy mode, uBlock Origin, uMatrix and Privacy Badger. I just got the eye and spent a couple of minutes tweaking settings until I gave up.
- zzzeek 6y agouBlock Origin v1.33.2 on Firefox linux blocks the entire page from loading for me. wasn't sure if it was one of those puzzle websites or something.
- ars 6y agoAnd if you leave the page alone for a while, a bunch of eyes will show up and partially cover the content. They go away if you click them.
- Octopodes 6y agoApparently I didn't need to read the article, okay.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoI very briefly get the eye and then the site loads using Safari with Wipr content blocker.
- 7786655 6y agoLooks like you get through once and then it blocks you. Ctrl-F5 fixes it.
- eru 6y agoOpened without any problem with ublock origin.
- rdtwo 6y agoWhy can’t I down vote this ahhh totally sabotages the entire thread