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When the first thing I see after opening a website is some sort of "Give us your email just for some useless newsletter honest" popup I just close the site as
by Lev1a 6y ago
When the first thing I see after opening a website is some sort of "Give us your email just for some useless newsletter honest" popup I just close the site as fast as I can.
How ITF can such a disgustingly annoying UX element still be so prevalent on certain genres of websites?
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoI suppose there's no reputational cost if it has become the norm. The same thing has happened with We care about your privacy dark-patterns. Otherwise reputable sites like Tom's Hardware pay little reputation cost for trying to trick the user into granting full cookie permissions.
- site-packages1 6y agoI have thought about this a bit. My take is that almost all of these blog posts are from one-off contributors and not one you'll see over and over. I kind of see it as them taking their shot as making you a recurring visitor or recurring reader of their content. I've personally never heard of Statista and don't think I ever will again, if past experience is an indicator. I don't fault them for that, although it is slightly annoying. Though if it were me, I'd personally wait until someone was partway through the article at least before presenting a newsletter sign up. There's no way I'd sign up for a newsletter before I saw the site's content.
- kevincox 6y agoI do exactly the same. If I see a popup covering a significant portion of the popup I just close the tab. It is rare that I am interested enough to actually click though, when the title is "Facebook tracks you" it definitely isn't worth it to me. But I guess it is clear that we are the oddballs. If everyone was like is these behaviours would disappear.