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"You can experience our content better in the app!"

My brother in Christ, you made the website...

Throw one of those bottom-corner "How can I help?" pop ups that makes the tab flash and constantly change the text in there too.

I close the tab at “disable your adblocker”

This site is better in The App! Download now?

The App:

A Chrome component, coupled to a straw to slurp all your data a browser cannot reach, and notifications coming out of your arse at 2am because they cannot fathom the idea of other countries existing.

Was raised in an age where where you needed firewalls, antiviruses, spam blocks and ad blocks, Ect to surf the web safety.

Now companies are doing everything they can to make sure you disable all it to have the privilege of using their website.

People living in EU. You guys are lucky. These cookie banners and stuff behave differently there because EU forces the reject all button

Anytime a website forces me to turn off my adblock, I leave it and block it so it doesn't show up again. If you force such predatory tactics, I am not interested in your website, and I'd rather look for another one.

js was a mistake

In 204x will be like

> visit site

> Popup: "We'd like to introduce you to our own Terms of Service."

> Popup: "And also these random terms regarding global rights

> Popup: "And minorities"

> Popup: "And countries who need YOUR help!"

> Popup: "No really, we really mean it."

> Popup: "And also regarding telemetry"

> Popup: "And on how we will fetch private/sensitive about you without your concern."

> Popup: "Also some things we've got from third parties about you"

> Popup: "Oh yeah! Would you like to buy these random stuff we think its fitting for YOU?"

etc.

Yes, but imagine what we had to deal with during the 90s dot-com boom before someone created a pop-up blocker. It was absolutely hellish.

Newsletters and notifications – two things I have never, ever once allowed.

STOP ASKING

More patience than me. I don't make it past Frame 2 unless I can keep scrolling, or there's a 'Reject All' button. If anything else pops up, too many ads in the scroll, or paragraph three still says fuck all, I'm out

I get why soulless corporations do this, but why do regular folks choose to publish their content on Medium, Substack, Devto, etc. when this is the shitty UX they’ll be forcing on their readers.

allow thisshittywebsite.com to see your location?

Nice try, Jareth

Now you can add:

• disable ad blocker to continue
• set your tracking preference that we’ll forget next visit, but you can’t read until you click it, ok?
• a video clip with ads playing in banner on top, which plays audio without your permission - then pops up the window just below as you scroll, blocking half the text

Ive been doing this dance for 30 years. From pop under popup windows in the 90s, adobe flash ads, Java script… and the list just keeps going. I have never bought something, from a web advert that was obnoxious. Google was the only place I willingly allowed ads back in early 2000s; that simple text box on the right with almost relevant adverts to my search. I bought from one of those, once.

turns out its an AI generated article.

I still get some of them, even with multiple anti-annoyance lists.

Anyone has a 99% working setup for mixed german/english, IT-centric usage?

There were a few years without any popups at all. This directly caused the 2008 recession due to people not receiving newsletters.