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Auto scrolling the page up to some full screen overlay requesting my email address is an automatic “hit the back button and leave” for me. Haven’t even had a ch

Auto scrolling the page up to some full screen overlay requesting my email address is an automatic “hit the back button and leave” for me. Haven’t even had a chance to read one word, I’m not even going to waste time generating a throwaway forwarding address for your marketing.

v7engine 4y ago
I used brave browser and that overlay is hidden. Give it a try once, its a beautiful browser with ad blockers and what not.
- esperent 4y ago
  Also a shout-out for Kiwi browser that allows you to install most Chrome plugins on Android. Most importantly uBlock, and while the UI is a bit clunky on mobile you can define your own blocking rules. I don't think any other mobile browser allows that.
  - randoglando 4y ago
    You can use Brave browser on Android too.
apsurd 4y ago
Farnam Street blog is very high quality. All content is free and I ended up paying premium to support the project. I'm saying this because I agree with you - IT IS A TRAVESTY - that seemingly Internet rot spares no corner. Ads, overlays, popups, cookie prompts, it's mind numbingly ridiculous. I wanted to see what you were talking about and yes on page load, the entire screen scrolls up to take over his own content with (his own) ad. WTF I'm just sad about the Internet. And I'm naively hopeful that in its rot, we're gonna reach a "post SEO" world where the next thing will (have to) subvert this garbage. keyword: naively =( P.S. I really liked this short article. High quality like I said!
- Grothendank 4y ago
  It's the author's choice, and it's the author who should be punished. If you have something important to say, say it for free.
  - nicbou 4y ago
    Why should it be free? You are not entitled to it. I'm not saying that I agree with these UX patterns, but a lot of good media is created out of financial incentive. People have bill to pays.
    - Grothendank 4y ago
      Should I pay you for what you wrote? No. You wrote it to benefit me, and yet I should not pay you. Curious, right? How would you explain that? I would consider your message a gift, designed to help me correct what you see as a mistaken view. Am I /truly/ not entitled to free gifts of information from sources that, like you yourself, want to benefit me at no cost to me? When so much free information exists, why should I be deluged with marketing driven pieces - like this - that I would filter from my view, if I only could? I never want to read pieces that are compromised by marketing and paywalls. And I should not have to, because there are plenty of free things to read. I could read a scientific article in that time, for instance - totally free, and 10-100x more valuable information. I could chat with a friend, or read an open source code project. Again, free information. The true issue is not some angel-counting argument about whether this amoral leech of an author needs to deluge people with marketing to eat - that's entirely debatable, and we won't get to the bottom of that debate. No. The real issue, in my humble if somewhat outraged opinion, is that these ux/seo patterns obscure the words of authors who desperately want to share knowledge for free. And I suspect that's a topic we can find common ground on.
      - nicbou 4y ago
        These patterns exist because it's the only way to get rewarded for writing. This might not be important to a humble blogger, but it does to someone investing a lot of time into a corpus of useful information. The alternative is to pay for what you read, but people won't do that. They won't even donate. Not even after they email you with extra questions, and you offer them personalised advice. The way I see it, you get a free beer, but there's an ad on the glass and the coaster. If you don't like that deal, you can buy the beer your consume. You can accept your free beer or you can leave. Just don't get your free beer then complain about the pour. You're not entitled to free beer.
kwhitefoot 4y ago
Doesn't happen to me using Firefox + uBlock Origin.

v7engine 4y ago

I used brave browser and that overlay is hidden. Give it a try once, its a beautiful browser with ad blockers and what not.

esperent 4y ago
Also a shout-out for Kiwi browser that allows you to install most Chrome plugins on Android. Most importantly uBlock, and while the UI is a bit clunky on mobile you can define your own blocking rules. I don't think any other mobile browser allows that.
- randoglando 4y ago
  You can use Brave browser on Android too.

apsurd 4y ago

Farnam Street blog is very high quality. All content is free and I ended up paying premium to support the project. I'm saying this because I agree with you - IT IS A TRAVESTY - that seemingly Internet rot spares no corner. Ads, overlays, popups, cookie prompts, it's mind numbingly ridiculous. I wanted to see what you were talking about and yes on page load, the entire screen scrolls up to take over his own content with (his own) ad. WTF I'm just sad about the Internet. And I'm naively hopeful that in its rot, we're gonna reach a "post SEO" world where the next thing will (have to) subvert this garbage. keyword: naively =( P.S. I really liked this short article. High quality like I said!

Grothendank 4y ago
It's the author's choice, and it's the author who should be punished. If you have something important to say, say it for free.
- nicbou 4y ago
  Why should it be free? You are not entitled to it. I'm not saying that I agree with these UX patterns, but a lot of good media is created out of financial incentive. People have bill to pays.
  - Grothendank 4y ago
    Should I pay you for what you wrote? No. You wrote it to benefit me, and yet I should not pay you. Curious, right? How would you explain that? I would consider your message a gift, designed to help me correct what you see as a mistaken view. Am I /truly/ not entitled to free gifts of information from sources that, like you yourself, want to benefit me at no cost to me? When so much free information exists, why should I be deluged with marketing driven pieces - like this - that I would filter from my view, if I only could? I never want to read pieces that are compromised by marketing and paywalls. And I should not have to, because there are plenty of free things to read. I could read a scientific article in that time, for instance - totally free, and 10-100x more valuable information. I could chat with a friend, or read an open source code project. Again, free information. The true issue is not some angel-counting argument about whether this amoral leech of an author needs to deluge people with marketing to eat - that's entirely debatable, and we won't get to the bottom of that debate. No. The real issue, in my humble if somewhat outraged opinion, is that these ux/seo patterns obscure the words of authors who desperately want to share knowledge for free. And I suspect that's a topic we can find common ground on.
    - nicbou 4y ago
      These patterns exist because it's the only way to get rewarded for writing. This might not be important to a humble blogger, but it does to someone investing a lot of time into a corpus of useful information. The alternative is to pay for what you read, but people won't do that. They won't even donate. Not even after they email you with extra questions, and you offer them personalised advice. The way I see it, you get a free beer, but there's an ad on the glass and the coaster. If you don't like that deal, you can buy the beer your consume. You can accept your free beer or you can leave. Just don't get your free beer then complain about the pour. You're not entitled to free beer.

kwhitefoot 4y ago

Doesn't happen to me using Firefox + uBlock Origin.