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It's been infuriating how fast this has been taking off. Pretty much every major website has it enabled now. First we had pop-ups driving us crazy for years, a

by sen 3y ago

It's been infuriating how fast this has been taking off. Pretty much every major website has it enabled now. First we had pop-ups driving us crazy for years, and we beat them down with pop-up blockers. Now we've got modal after modal overlaying each other and blocking out the content more than any popups ever did... and we can't get rid of them (other than separately, each and every one targeted via ublock/etc) because the companies controlling the browsers want to use them to harass us too.

SllX 3y ago
> because the companies controlling the browsers want to use them to harass us too. We can be more specific than that: Google wants to harass their users too. Between Safari, Firefox, Brave, and Arc, I’m not seeing that anywhere else.
- omoikane 3y ago
  Actually I only see this with Firefox and not Chrome, probably because I disabled "Allow Chrome sign-in" in Chrome. I am not sure if there is a similar option for Firefox without resorting to addons.
  - lwansbrough 3y ago
    I’m sure it isn’t, but it feels like it should be illegal to create public nuisance and then use your monopolistic power to hide that nuisance from the portion of the public you have control of.
  - SllX 3y ago
    I’m sure Google displays those prompts in every browser. What I responded to was this though: > because the companies controlling the browsers want to use them to harass us too. The way I read that is the companies controlling the browsers want to use them to harass us on their domains inside their browsers, so the equivalent would Apple doing something equivalent in Safari or Mozilla doing something equivalent in Firefox. Google does this though, I’m unsure about others but inside the browsers I listed I’m not seeing the equivalent behavior, and in those browsers, Google is just another domain, not the browser vendor per se. Though I should correct myself on this front since I’m here: Arc required an account for me to use it and I just plain forgot. They’re very upfront about this during setup though, so I wouldn’t call that harassment, and I don’t know if they still do for the final release.
veave 3y ago
>other than separately, each and every one targeted via ublock/etc You subscribe to lists and let the developers of those lists worry about finding out what has to be blocked.

by sen 3y ago

SllX 3y ago

> because the companies controlling the browsers want to use them to harass us too. We can be more specific than that: Google wants to harass their users too. Between Safari, Firefox, Brave, and Arc, I’m not seeing that anywhere else.

omoikane 3y ago
Actually I only see this with Firefox and not Chrome, probably because I disabled "Allow Chrome sign-in" in Chrome. I am not sure if there is a similar option for Firefox without resorting to addons.
- lwansbrough 3y ago
  I’m sure it isn’t, but it feels like it should be illegal to create public nuisance and then use your monopolistic power to hide that nuisance from the portion of the public you have control of.
- SllX 3y ago
  I’m sure Google displays those prompts in every browser. What I responded to was this though: > because the companies controlling the browsers want to use them to harass us too. The way I read that is the companies controlling the browsers want to use them to harass us on their domains inside their browsers, so the equivalent would Apple doing something equivalent in Safari or Mozilla doing something equivalent in Firefox. Google does this though, I’m unsure about others but inside the browsers I listed I’m not seeing the equivalent behavior, and in those browsers, Google is just another domain, not the browser vendor per se. Though I should correct myself on this front since I’m here: Arc required an account for me to use it and I just plain forgot. They’re very upfront about this during setup though, so I wouldn’t call that harassment, and I don’t know if they still do for the final release.

veave 3y ago

>other than separately, each and every one targeted via ublock/etc You subscribe to lists and let the developers of those lists worry about finding out what has to be blocked.