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This page is unreadable without clicking through a cookie popup that takes up the entire screen. Here's a tip: nobody wants "targeting cookies", and if someone
by hnarn 4y ago
This page is unreadable without clicking through a cookie popup that takes up the entire screen. Here's a tip: nobody wants "targeting cookies", and if someone belongs to the 0.01% that do, you can let them enable it manually, instead of using semi-dark patterns to have uneducated users accept all cookies without understanding what that choice means.
I understand some pages need advertising revenue to survive, and that targeted advertising brings in a lot more revenue, but Linode is not a blog, it's a cloud provider valued at almost a billion dollars. They don't need to do this.
- decide1000 4y agoOn Firefox I use the addon Consent-O-Matic which does the automatic handling of GDPR consent forms.
- JW_00000 4y agoI use the same but it didn't work very well on this site. It took a long time, and the background remained semi-transparent black after it finished.
- ptman 4y agoAnd use plausible/fathom/goatcounter/... instead of something that uses cookies
- nicbou 4y agoI use Plausible (it's fantastic), but it misses a lot of the insights I used to get with Google Analytics, including simple navigation flow between pages. This is fine. Insight is overrated. However I'm not optimizing for conversions, while Linode probably has professionals doing that full time. I can't imagine trying to convince my boss to blind the marketing team, especially since the effect is immeasurable by design. I can use Plausible because it doesn't threaten a whole department.
- ElectricalUnion 4y agoRelevant legislation (say, GDPR) says nothing specific about cookies, just about using client-side state. Granted, relevant legislation also says privacy should be the default, and that you can't coerce people into accepting loss of privacy. Anyways, that would then need to use a, say, "local storage banner" for most intrusive tracking and we're back to square one.
- ho_schi 4y agoSome companies rely their business model just upon upon the EU regulation e.g.: https://usercentrics.com https://usercentrics.com I know them only because their cookie banners often use a layer to block the website, sometimes doesn't load with WebKit on Linux or are slow. I've doubts about a centralized storage of cookie data across different websites.
- jwmoz 4y agoI HATE these popups. I'm in the UK and I spend most my time on the web having to deal with them. Truly awful, should be some regulation to stop companies with these horrible dark patterns.
- blowski 4y agoUse Firefox and this plugin. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...
- nicbou 4y agoThe "annoyances" filters of uBlock Origin remove most of them. It improves the web so much that it affects my browser and OS choices. The web us unbearable without it.
- meandmycode 4y agoHaving used an adblock for a decade or more, it's actually shocking to browse without one these days, it actually feels like I've got malware, with many many sites having LAYERS of ads, like they are buckshotting and expecting most to be blocked.
- nicbou 4y agoRight? I bought an iPad, and it doesn't let me filter all of that noise. Boy howdy is the web loud! A few years ago, I built a website while kind of forgetting how others experience the web. It's lightweight, and eschews ads, newsletter prompts, cookie notices, chatboxes, tracking and all the other annoyances. I didn't think much of it, but a lot of people notice and bring it up when they contact me. I'm tapping into an undiscovered niche: websites that don't piss people off!
- mbirth 4y agoSafari on iOS allows extensions nowadays. Wipr, SponsorBlock and StopTheMadness are some you should check out.