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Holy crap, MIT, I had to close out three popups to read the article. That’s with ad blockers turned on. I’m surprised by how organizations lend their name to s
by prepend 3y ago
Holy crap, MIT, I had to close out three popups to read the article. That’s with ad blockers turned on.
I’m surprised by how organizations lend their name to such terrible user experiences.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoMIT contributes tremendously to military technology. It's the primary purpose. I'd be concerned for that reputational and moral hazard such that the the UX challenges of a blog wouldn't even register. Even Chomsky couldn't make it out clean and got sucked into state actor trouble.
- codemonkey-zeta 3y agoMIT's entire reputation was _made_ by the military. It was a no name school before the contracts of WWII/The Cold War, e.g. the prominent radar lab https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Radiation_Laboratory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Radiation_Laboratory
- Semaphor 3y agoNot to defend MIT, but as I got zero with my blockers (uBo + uMatrix + FF tracking protection), maybe it’s time for an upgrade? ;) Might of course also be another reason.
- prepend 3y agoThanks. I’m on mobile safari so a bit of a pain to upgrade. This is a rare experience for me, so I’m still calling out MIT for being at best thoughtless.
- bullfightonmars 3y agoCheck out the wipr plugin. It does a pretty good job of blocking popups and ads on ios safari.
- mmh0000 3y agoAdGuard is your best friend on iOS. FOSS software that blocks all ads. I read this article on my iPad with safari. No ads, no pop up. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047223162 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047...
- daedrdev 3y agoI got another one from an add as well.
- bell-cot 3y agoTested with Firefox, Privacy Badger, and NoScript - zero popups, zero ads.
- cubefox 3y agoFour pop-ups for me.