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You should be a able to change how URLs work for your own website. They're not making any promise of stability here.
by baby 4y ago
You should be a able to change how URLs work for your own website. They're not making any promise of stability here.
- pessimizer 4y agoYou can. The problem is that they're changing them to actively and intentionally circumvent the expressed wills of people visiting their site. I'm allowed to move my arms like I want, but that doesn't give me the right to push people off cliffs.
- zaphirplane 4y agoVery poor metaphor. The will of the (informed) visitor doesn’t matter when they are visiting a place. I can’t have an intention to take a painting from a museum, ranging about the museum making it hard
- jefftk 4y agoShould we also ban sites formatting their pages so that you can't easily block their ads?
- teddyh 4y agoIntent matters.
- jefftk 4y agoMany sites do this very intentionally, including Facebook. Look sometime at the markup on their "sponsored" disclosures
- zakki 4y agoI believe the problem is not the ads but the tracking.
- jefftk 4y agoFormatting pages to make ad blocking difficult is another example of websites making a conscious choice to thwart user intent. In both cases, sites are attempting to tie content consumption to content monetization, and users are attempting to get the content without the monetization because they dislike side effects of the monetization.
- dorgo 4y agoMost websites track users. Even if they don't try to monetize content or show ads.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoyou're ignoring political purposes, and the political engagement of even the most vocally apolitical orgs. and you're ignoring abuse of access granted through neglect
- dredmorbius 4y agoThat's changing the topic and avoiding the question. It's also further defending hostile dark patterns and evading explicitly expressed personal intent. The browser is a user agent, not a publisher or advertiser agent.
- nextaccountic 4y agoI would be in favor
- birksherty 4y agoYes, this kind of tricks by corporations.
- chrischen 4y agoI guess they should just be done with it and say if you don’t opt in don’t use FB.
- birksherty 4y agoI'm all in for making this kind behaviour illegal by big corporations which is used by large population.
- baby 4y agoThis is a bold opinion
- birksherty 4y agoThe times I've seen these corporations doing cunning harmful actions, I've left with zero sympathies for them.
- Sakos 4y agoNot when it impacts peoples' right to privacy and control over their own data. Do you work for Facebook?