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I'm increasingly encountering the following hostile sequence: 1. A CAPTCHA 2. A cookie consent ad 3. An immediate content blocking pop up asking me to subscr
by bogomipz 4y ago
I'm increasingly encountering the following hostile sequence:
1. A CAPTCHA
2. A cookie consent ad
3. An immediate content blocking pop up asking me to subscribe to their newsletter(generally
before I've had time to read a single sentence.
It's amazing how miserable browsing the web has become. It's also amazing how many companies see this experience as acceptable. I just close the page when I get the email newsletter request.
I realize the CAPTCHA is not going away but I feel like I'm regularly seeing it just to browse ordinary content.
Is there any way browsers could limit these annoying mailing list subscription prompts as well? I feel like this has quickly become a scourge on par with the cookie consent ads.