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1. Pop up demanding I make a choice about their cookies. 2. Pop up telling me my adblocker is bad and I should feel bad. 3. Pop up suggesting I join their clu
by dpark 10mo ago
1. Pop up demanding I make a choice about their cookies.
2. Pop up telling me my adblocker is bad and I should feel bad.
3. Pop up suggesting I join their club/newsletter/whatever.
Every. fucking. site.
The newsletter one is especially obnoxious because it’s always got a delay so it shows up when I’m actually trying to read something or do something.
Edit: Oh, yeah. 4. Pop up to remind me I should really be using their app.
- isodev 10mo agoIt’s because they care about your privacy, they want you to know just how much their care, so much so they’re ready to show you popups /s.
- bingo-bongo 10mo ago“We care about your privacy..” Followed by something about 1800+ companies they want to sent my data to .. :|
- mnw21cam 10mo agoNo, it's "We value your privacy". That's different. That means they see your privacy as having value, and they want to extract as much of that value out of it as they possibly can.
- plagiarist 10mo ago> We and the 1600 third-parties care about your privacy.
- econ 10mo agoYou forgot to sub to push.
- BuyMyBitcoins 10mo agoFor a while I would put “f***yournewsletter@gmail.com” but then I realized no one would ever see it, and it probably just helps their click numbers. I detest newsletter modals.
- wiml 10mo agoI used to go to the trouble of looking up the company's own sales contact or cxo or whatever and subscribing them to themselves, but now I just close the tab.
- ryandrake 10mo agoI remember in the early 2000s I started getting junk fax calls on my phone at least 4X a day. It got so annoying that I took time out of my day to get revenge. First, they made the mistake of sending it from the same number each time. So after some investigation, I identified the name of the company and even found the CEO's phone number. Unfortunately for them, I was an early VOIP adopter and it was relatively straightforward to set the PBX software to forward all calls from that number to the CEO's phone. The calls stopped happening within 48 hours.
- quicklime 10mo agoI used to do that too, but now I go to my spam folder and grab the latest phishing email and use the reply-to address. I like the idea of some sales guy following up a lead with a Nigerian scammer, but sadly I’ll never see the email exchange.
- zelphirkalt 10mo agoPut such a sales person into the shoes of the Nigerian scammer, uh, I mean "prince" and they might just as well become the Nigerian scammer. It takes a specific kind of person to engage in the dark patterns stuff and be convinced of themselves doing nothing wrong.
- kstrauser 10mo agoIn the days when running one’s own mailserver was the common case for small business websites, root@localhost was a fun one. “Why does this freaking thing keep filling its hard drive with our own newsletters?”
- wolvoleo 10mo agoFor the cookies you have the Consent-O-Matic plugin. For the rest Ublock Origin is pretty effective with the optional Annoyances lists switched on.
- zelphirkalt 10mo agoBut Consent-O-Matic is a trap doing the wrong thing. It shouldn't be accepting everything automatically, leading to what businesses want, manufactured consent, but it should be rejecting everything. Of course that's a lot harder, because of websites engaging in illegal practices / dark patterns.
- FergusArgyll 10mo agoYou can choose what you want it to accept. In my settings these toggles are available. Preferences and Functionality Performance and Analytics Information Storage and Access Content selection, delivery, and reporting Ad selection, delivery, and reporting Other Purposes Of which I only allow the first
- zelphirkalt 10mo agoIt offers that? I didn't know that, thanks for correcting me, TIL. I might consider using it then.
- wolvoleo 10mo agoNo this is not how it works. You can configure it how you want. In fact by default it denies everything because tracking is supposed to be opt-in. The name consent-O-matic implies that you automatically give consent but this is not what it actually does. At least not unless you explicitly want to do that. Maybe not the best name for it.
- Macha 10mo agoI believe you’re thinking of “I don’t care about cookies”, which accepts everything. Consent-o-matic goes for maximum opt out by default unless you configure it otherwise (I doubt anyone does). Unfortunately as the opt out flow is tweaked more often than the accept all flow (as cmp vendors work to minimise opt outs), this does mean it breaks more often on sites so sometimes it fails to remove the banner
- conductr 10mo agoYour feedback is important, Take a survey about our site… after I just got there for the first time and haven’t even seen enough content to make any worthwhile observations about the site other than “leave me alone”
- dpark 10mo agoBonus points if they never tested this in mobile so they don’t realize (don’t care?) that they completely broke the website because the ‘X’ to close the popup was rendered offscreen and they broke scrolling so you can’t get to it.